I have mine, too! As to calculators, I remember a ...

I have mine, too! As to calculators, I remember a ...
by Barney68 (2019-09-21 08:18:24)

In reply to: I still have my slide rule. Never had the early calculators posted by so-it-goes

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.

It is possible that I was wrong ...

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Still have my Pickett in high visibility yellow. - dbldomer7375 2019-09-21 08:34:27
- Yellow it is! And with tiny screws that you can use ... - Barney68 2019-09-21 09:33:27