Re: Nerd's calculator

Remember the An Wang story about how his first calculator models would over
heat.

He instructed his sales personnel to do half the demo, then open the
calculator to show off the fine engineering, then close it and run the
second half of the demo!

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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
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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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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