Calculator displays

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Fri May 8 15:54:50 1998

On Fri, 8 May 1998 Philip.Belben_at_powertech.co.uk wrote:

> The electronic one was interesting mainly for its display. It was
> fluorescent (greenish digits sealed in a long glass tube), but not
> 7-segment. Instead, there were (I think) nine segments, all of strange
> curly shapes, which made up digits much easier to read than the angular,
> blocky, 7-segment types. But I can no longer remember how these were
> arranged, nor even any details like the manufacturer of the calculator.
>
> Does anyone know of machines with such displays?

Somebody was describing this same calculator to me yesterday. It was the
Sharp EL-8 and had a 9-segment display.

> At what date were they made?

Weren't these the first microprocessor-based calcs (4004) from around
1974?

-- Doug
Received on Fri May 08 1998 - 15:54:50 BST