On Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 10:45:39 PM UTC-4, martin martin wrote: > > This weekend I visited the Computer History Museum in San Jose. If you > get the chance to go it's worth a full day. While I was wanderer though > the many halls I found this 1961 12 digit Nixie calculator! >
A place where I worked years and years ago had Wang 360SE calculators for the engineers. A full system (as we had them) was a "logic unit" which was connected by cables to 4 "display units" and one card reader. Yes, this was a time-shared calculator! Printers, expanded memory, a CRT display (and probably others) were available as add-ons. The systems as we had them configured were around $10,000 (in 1969 dollars or around $70,000 today (according to usinflationcalculator.com). They were old when I was using them in the 70's, but even so... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c3db2203-904c-4413-8a92-a5e40ae67fb3%40googlegroups.com.
