At 3:08 PM -0800 11/26/01, Harry Avis wrote: >They were Marchant, I wrote this note hastily before going to class with one >eye on the clock. I can't remember whether the Friden calculators were >completely electronic or operated like an electrified adding machine. Either >way my guess (counting the chunk-achunk-achunk) that seems indelibly wrote >in my auditory memory, each "chunka" was a half second, so the answer would >depend on the number of places needed. >
This was in the (very) early '60's, so they were mechanical. As I recall, it took about 2.5 seconds. I also remember seeing the slide rule that I used as a feshman engineer in 1959 in the MIT museum. * PAUL K. BRANDON [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Psychology Dept Minnesota State University, Mankato * * 23 Armstrong Hall, Mankato, MN 56001 ph 507-389-6217 * * http://www.mankato.msus.edu/dept/psych/welcome.html * --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
