Slipsticks and calculators and a clock

From: Mike Allison <mallison_at_konnections.com>
Date: Wed Feb 4 16:58:21 1998

I can't believe I'm posting to this thread.

There's a Burroughs electronic calculator 1940/50s vintage, on auction
nearby. It's a real Difference Engine with power. It looks like a huge
mechanical adding machine with a large motor attached and a typewriter
printout. You even get to see the wheels and gears turn behind a glass
door.

First compuer I ever saw for sale leaking oil...

-Mike

Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> <At 11:34 2/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
> <>Texas Instruments was naming some of their calculators "SR" (for Slide
> <>Rule) up until the mid-80's, at least. My first one was the SR-10...the
> <>"wedge". $110, IIRC....Was that TI's first?
>
> Not by a long shot. The first was in late '71 and went for about $140
> (8bigit 4banger). I had one going into EE school.
>
> Allison
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