@FritzCat@Mark_L My college roommate my freshman year was in demand in the dorm because he had a handheld 4 function calculator. It was the shape of a brick, about half the depth and half the weight. By my junior year I had a research job on one side of campus and was using a 300 baud acoustic modem to access the computers WAY OVER on the other side (intRAnet). ARPANET was on campus, but I didn’t know it at the time.
@davirom@FritzCat In my freshman college year (1969-1970), there were two Friden “calculators” on campus. They were table-top sized, with a CRT display (not the multi-row button mechanical machines that were also around). The one in the physics department was better than the one on the chemistry department because it had a square root function. They were bolted down to the table tops (I think they physics department one had a $3000 price tag).
I remember in my days working at Digital Equipment Corporation and seeing this new thing called the “Internet”. DEC had been using an internal DECnet network for years before.
I was in the last Physics class at my HS to use slide rules.
@FritzCat I was using a slide rule into college, but the first calculators (then later the Bomar Brain) were just appearing.
@FritzCat @Mark_L My college roommate my freshman year was in demand in the dorm because he had a handheld 4 function calculator. It was the shape of a brick, about half the depth and half the weight. By my junior year I had a research job on one side of campus and was using a 300 baud acoustic modem to access the computers WAY OVER on the other side (intRAnet). ARPANET was on campus, but I didn’t know it at the time.
@davirom @FritzCat In my freshman college year (1969-1970), there were two Friden “calculators” on campus. They were table-top sized, with a CRT display (not the multi-row button mechanical machines that were also around). The one in the physics department was better than the one on the chemistry department because it had a square root function. They were bolted down to the table tops (I think they physics department one had a $3000 price tag).
@Mark_L My roomie’s calculator was about $100, which would be about $700 in today’s dollars. Moore’s law.
I remember in junior high school when calculator watches were the cool new thing. I’m using the term, “cool” very loosely here.
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I had one of those lmao
I remember in my days working at Digital Equipment Corporation and seeing this new thing called the “Internet”. DEC had been using an internal DECnet network for years before.
@Mark_L One of the computers across campus was a PDP 10.