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From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Architecture behind "early" electronic calculators
Message-ID: <1341@osiris.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 22:56:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: osiris.1341
Posted: Thu Jul 30 22:56:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 15:09:01 EDT
References: <1893@kitty.UUCP>
Organization: The Bavarian Illuminati, Inc.
Lines: 18
Keywords: electronic calculators, method of operation
Summary: 'The Chip'

In article <1893@kitty.UUCP>, larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
> 
> 	While I have always had a keen interest in the history and development
> of computers, and have collected and read many books on the topic, there is
> one area which I have never seen mentioned: the early electronic calculator.
> By "early", I am referring to 1966 and prior years.

	'The Chip' by T.R. Reid has an excellent account of the first days
of the development of microchip technology. There's a fascinating chapter
about the first hand-held calculator (+,-,*,/) (all integers). Makes me
grateful to have been born in this amazing age :-)

--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic