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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'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/02/2017 04:49 PM
Subject: RE: Nerd's calculator
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You guys are all pretty young. I learned on one of these babies from
Monroe.

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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2017 12:09 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion; Rob Berendt
Subject: Re: Nerd's calculator

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


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