colleague bringing an early model to work: size and weight of a brick; tiny glowing red numbers at the bottom of wells so that you had to hold it just right to see them; batteries lasted for minutes; 8 digits and no decimal point; no functions other than add, subtract, multiply, and divide. It had cost Priebe $500 perfectly good 1968 or 1969 American dollars.
I thought to myself, "this will never catch on" and hugged the old Pickett close to my chest.