Hi, Barry,
At 04:03 18/01/98 GMT, you wrote:
>>Attacment:picture of the machine "olip101.jpg"
>
>PLEASE! No more attachments, especially of that size.
>It took me dozens of tries to finally get it. (It blocked all my
>other emails.)
Hmm, sorry but I thought that 77 k attachment file would not make any
problem (it took 45 sec. to send it).
You could use the "skip big messages" option that most mail program have.
Anyway I will refrain from sending attachements to this list in future.
About my messag on Re: Firsts/programmable calculators, I received back from
classicmp only one part of the whole message wrote (very strange).
Here follows a copy without attachement:
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Someone At 01:44 PM 1/11/98 -0500, wrote:
>>> >First programable calc
>>>
>>> Then there is the "first solid state electronic calc" which I think goes to
>>> the Busicom from Japan that employed the first production run of the intel
>>> 4000 chip set: the 4001 (2048 bit ROM), 4002 (320 bit RAM), 4003 (10 bit
>>> shift register), and the 4004 (4 bit CPU). That chip set was shipped to
>>> Busicom in March 1971 according to Michael S. Malone's "The
>Microprocessor:
>>> A Biography" ISBN 0-387-94342-0
Then William Donzell added:
>>Wang's first (or quite near their first) product was an all electronic
>>calculator, introduced in the late 1960s. They are big, but could be
>>lugged around.
Then Joe:
> HP's first calculator, the 9100a, was introduced in 1967 or 68. It had
>no ICs, used core memories, and used logic gates made of diodes and
>resistors. It did have transistors but they were mainly used as amplifiers
>for the core memory. I guess it still qualifies as "solid state".) It was
>fully proggramable and used RPN. I have a 9100B with a 1969 date code.
>
> I believe the Japanese Busicom calculator is even older and dates from
>about 1966.
Let see if I' m able to go more back:
I translate from the URL page of the Pisa University Scientific Instruments
Preservation Dept. <
http://www.difi.unipi.it/museo/calcolat/miniepc/miniepc.html >
Olivetti Programma 101
Olivetti Programma 101
Programma 101 comes introduced in 1965 during the BEMA elecronic
show,in New York.It represents the first "desktop calculator" ever
constructed in the world.
40.000 exemplary were constructed at the price of 3.200 $
The machine offered the possibility to carry out arithmetical
operations in direct way, or of being programmed for the
calculation of complex functions.
The programs could be stored in magnetic stripes.
It was entirely planned and realized in the Olivetti research
laboratories of
Pregnana, from a group of researchers guided from the Ing. Piergiorgio
Perotto, the design was from the Arch. Mario Bellini.
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