CompuCorp "Micro Computer"

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Nov 13 14:23:34 1998

I have never heard of a CalComp calculator but there is a company named
CalComp that makes printers and plotters. They may have sold a calculator
at one time. If so, it was probably made by someone else. Calcomp has a
website (www.calcomp.com), why not contact them and see if they did sell
calculators?

  Joe


>At 10:05 AM 11/13/98 -0500, Chuck wrote:
>
>>Hi Alex;
>>
>> Interesting site. I'm curious if you (or anyone else here) has
>>heard of a programmable calculator by, I beleive' "Calcomp". We had one
>>in high school in mid 70's - it came with an integrated printer, probably
>>about 40 columns, can't recall what the display was, maybe blue
>>flourescent, - and the interesting thing is you could program it with
>>punch cards. Once you code something, you put a card into a hand
>>held card punch holder that was a rubber backing with slots beneath
>>all the holes, and use a stylus to punch out the holes. Then you could
>>program it by feeding the cards into a little motorized reader plugged
>>into the Calcomp.
>>
>> That was my first programming experience which led to a lust
>>for Mark-8's and Altairs, etc.
>>
>> Chuck
>> cswiger_at_widomaker.com
>>
>>
>>
>
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