My first calc. was a 4-function Rapid-Man from Eaton's Canada. It cost me about $150 back in 1970 and I continued to use it at work in the pharmacy of the old Brampton Peel Memorial Hospital - it was the first electronic calculator in the whole hospital - administration was too cheap to buy us any new high technology. I also had the first fax machine in Brampton Ontario it came from a Canada Government surplus sale and when I printed out the transaction record the header was "PMO Private Office Fax " ie from Jean Chretien !!
Pharma Phil
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From: Mac Doktor <[email protected]>
Date: January 2, 2020 at 12:19 PM
On Jan 2, 2020, at 12:09 PM, gregebert < [email protected]> wrote:
I still have my $10 APF scientific calculator from 1976 which got me thru high school, college, and did my taxes on it for a few years thereafter.
The VFD display is still working nicely. Not programmable.
Our first calculator had a VFD and did square roots for some odd reason. No idea where it is now.
At this point I'm using an HP 35s. WAY more functions than I need but at least I've finally reached the point where RPN just seems natural. It's also quicker than the algebraic method which helps my brain a bit.
I used FORTH for a while and found the stack-based approach very intuitive. I daresay I was actually pretty good at keeping it all straight in my mind but that was many years ago on an Apple ][+.
Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor”
"Never install version point-zero of anything"
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