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From: Rick Bensene <servio!rickb@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Old Calculators
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Date: 24 Aug 90 20:22:27 GMT
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In <11261@accuvax.nwu.edu> petrilli@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Chris
Petrilli) writes:

>This is nothing ... a friend of mine has a Wang Programmable
>Calculator Mainframe (key word) ... it supports six add on
>"terminals", and is implemented in discrete logic (i.e. 1000s of
>transistors).  The main unit is about 4'x4', and makes an aweful sound
>when on.  At the moment it doesn't work, and for some strange reason,
>Wang doesn't support it anymore (I wonder....).  The date on it is 1969.

Looks like time for comp.old.calculators.  I have TWO of these, and a
large number of the 'terminals'.  I also have a working Wang LOKI-1,
which I believe is Wang's FIRST calculator.  Hardly a pocket-sized
device.

I'm always interested in old-calculator stories.  Let's carry the rest
of this discussion out via EMail, however, and leave comp.dcom.telecom
for telecommunications topics.