On 2020-01-02 3:06 p.m., alb.001 alb.001 wrote:
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.
My first Job was selling calculators at Eaton's
there were many rapid man lines
800 series, handheld LED units
1200 series Neon 12 digit display, with panaplex or NEC readouts
1208 8 digit LCD desk unit bought from Rockwell
2000 series printing units with epson drum printheads and no display
in the back room we joked that they were made by "Rapidly Dated Systems
and Equipment" as opposed to Rapid Data Systems
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
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Mac Doktor <[email protected]>
Date: January 2, 2020 at 12:19 PM
On Jan 2, 2020, at 12:09 PM, gregebert < [email protected]
<mailto:[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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