Re: Nerd's calculator

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the summer of 1969 I worked in the quality control department of the 
adhesive tape division of 3M - on one desk I had one of these desktop 
mechanical calculators - not sure if it was electrical, though.

On another desk there was a Wang programmable calculator, not sure I 
ever used that.

I was given an assignment to tighten tolerances on the weight of 
adhesive on the tapes - Fibonacci and Pascal and power curves - Oh, My!

Too much fun!

Vern

On 12/4/2017 8:32 AM, broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Paul,
>
> My dad used to bring one of those home from his work
> and sit for hours working on big tabular type sheets
> and I can remember that thing running for several
> seconds churning out his calculations.  Made almost
> a "cha chink" kind of noise at the end.  That was in the
> early 60's.  Are you that old?  :-)
>
> Bill
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> From:   "Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
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> Date:   12/02/2017 04:49 PM
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> You guys are all pretty young. I learned on one of these babies from
> Monroe.
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> It was the HP-35 when I was in college.  The next-best thing to a
> personal computer (which hadn't been invented yet).
>
> The 'first' HP-RPN calculator, and all us engineering students were
> green with envy over those who could afford one!
>
> --Paul E Musselman