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  2. Hewlett-Packard 9100A - Wikipedia

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    The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (HP 9100A) is an early programmable calculator [3] (or computer), first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a ...

  3. Friden, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Friden Calculator Friden Flexowriter. In 1957, Friden purchased the Commercial Controls Corporation of Rochester, New York.This gave them the Flexowriter teleprinter, an electric typewriter capable of being used as part of unit record equipment developed in World War II for the Department of the Navy to automatically type "regret to inform you" letters to the survivors of fallen servicemen ...

  4. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    For forty years the arithmometer was the only type of mechanical calculator available for sale until the industrial production of the more successful Odhner Arithmometer in 1890. [8] The comptometer, introduced in 1887, was the first machine to use a keyboard that consisted of columns of nine keys (from 1 to 9) for each digit.

  5. Sumlock ANITA calculator - Wikipedia

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    ANITA Mk VIII. The ANITA Mark VII and ANITA Mark VIII calculators were launched simultaneously in late 1961 as the world's first all-electronic desktop calculators. [1] [2] Designed and built by the Bell Punch Co. in Britain, and marketed through its Sumlock Comptometer division, they used vacuum tubes and cold-cathode switching tubes in their logic circuits and nixie tubes for their numerical ...

  6. Victor Technology - Wikipedia

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    9500 - The 9500 is a black 3.2 oz desktop calculator that uses LR1130 batteries. It has a selectable rounding switch and selectable decimal switch. This calculator also includes 3-key independent memory and is made with 50% recycled plastic. [19] 9700 - The 9700 is a black 9.6 oz desktop calculator with a 12 digit tilted LCD display. It has ...

  7. Abacus - Wikipedia

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    The wireframe may be used either with positional notation like other abacuses (thus the 10-wire version may represent numbers up to 9,999,999,999), or each bead may represent one unit (e.g. 74 can be represented by shifting all beads on 7 wires and 4 beads on the 8th wire, so numbers up to 100 may be represented).

  8. 12 Collectible Toys From the 1970s Worth More Than You Think

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    DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty ImagesThe 1970s introduced a plethora of toys that have evolved from childhood playthings to cherished collectibles that defined a generation. From action figures and ...

  9. Category:Mechanical calculators - Wikipedia

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