Calculators I'm thinking of are "HandHeld" and the IC by Jack Kilby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby
1976. The "year the slide rule died" They say.
----- Original Message -----
From: Johnny Billquist
To: simh@trailing-edge.com
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix
On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham <bill...@suddenlink.net>
wrote:
>>
>> Well that's certainly before ICs I think that was in the 1950s and it was
some early calculators that killed slide rules. What kind of "processor" were
they using? I'm not so sure there was real HLL before Adm. Hopper. And no
binary by Babbge. Do you have any links or anything from the '40s?
>
> HLL? I was talking about assembler... Anyway, I don't believe COBOL was
the first HLL, though it certainly was fairly early.
The first HLL ought to have been FORTRAN. Lisp might have been the
second, but I'm not entirely sure.
I'm not sure what kind of calculators Bill are thinking of. But until
the early 70s, calculators were usually mechanical, or electromechanical
things with cogwheels, and definitely worked in decimal.
No processors in there...
Johnny
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