Speaking of old calculators, this month's Scientific American has a good article on the Curta calculator, a pocket-sized, (salt-shaker-sized, rather) mechanical (hand-crank!) calculator capable of +-/*^ and sqrt (using some formulas in combination...) Very interesting, very cool, and apparently very rare. I think it can do something like 15 digits of precision. > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Tom Penney > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 2:39 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Minnesota Computers For Schools > > > On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 12:33, Nate Carlson wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Samuel MacDonald wrote: > > > We didn't have any computers in the high school I went > to. That was > > > 1974-77 so that sort of explains it :) > > > > Really? You didn't have calculators back then? :) > > I remember my parents buying one of the first consumer > "portable digital calculators" for my oldest sister when she > went to off to collage. It was $150. It had add, subtract, > multiply, divide and square root with an 8 digit readout. I > couldn't play with it. It was too expencive. That was mid 70's. > > -- > Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list