I bought a Commodore MinuteMan 1 calculator in June 1972. It weighed
around 3 pounds, had a red led display and only basic functions, +, -,
*, / with no user accessable registers. The rechargable batteries had a
very short life. Mine spent more time in the service center than in my
hands. The cost? $179.99 at my local J.C.Penny store, in the camera
department. I replaced it with a $59.95 TI calculator that a friend
bought for me at the TI employee store for half price(I lived in
Sherman, TX where TI made logic chips, wafers and PAVE smart bomb
kits).
See:
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ssdm/computer_collection/commodore/minuteman1.html
James
jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> > See above (Commodore RPN4921)
> ??? Commodore made RPM calculators? Astonishing. I did not know that
> they made calculators at all.
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>
> tschuess,
> Jochen
>
> Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
Received on Sat Aug 18 2001 - 17:08:28 BST