His latest doesn’t disappoint, as he delves into the workings of one of the first hand-held electronic calculators. The Sharp EL-8 from 1969 had five MOS ICs at its heart, and among them the ...
We’ve all got calculators on our phones, in our web browsers, and even in the home “assistant” that’s listening in on your conversations all day on the off chance you blurt out a math ...
Rosen said interest in the Curta spiked around January 2004 after an article in Scientific American titled “The Curious ...
The HP-35, so named because it had 35 keys, was Hewlett-Packard’s first pocket calculator and the world’s first calculator with trigonometric and exponential functions. It was introduced in ...