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TULIP: The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral for the HP-41 Handheld Calculator
2+ week, 1+ day ago (212+ words) TULIP is short for "The Ultimate Intelligent Peripheral" and it's an everything expansion board for the HP-41 line of handheld calculators sold by HP from 1979 to 1990. These particular calculators support Reverse Polish notation which seems to be one of those…...
The Rise of Fake Casio Scientific Calculators
2+ week, 2+ day ago (155+ words) Here's hoping that Casio fully reverts to the EX-style of UI in its next 991-series calculator and finds a way to curb the spread of bad clones of its currently last good scientific calculator. Had one of these about 15 years…...
Examining The First Mechanical Calculator
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (262+ words) Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite a feat since there…...
Repairing Vintage Sony Luggable Calculators
7+ mon, 4+ day ago (298+ words) You might wonder why you'd repair a calculator when you can pick up a new one for a buck. [Tech Tangents] though has some old Sony calculators that used Nixie "read more You might wonder why you'd repair a calculator…...
How Hard Is It To Write A Calculator App?
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (502+ words) How hard can it be to write a simple four-function calculator program? After all, computers are good at math, and making a calculator isn't exactly blazing a new trail, right? "read more How hard can it be to write a…...