On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Tim Gaines wrote:

>   Another, priced at about $115,
> looked the same, but it had three little extra buttons up on
> the top edge (on the 1.25" side) that allowed you to compute
> a reciprocal, a square, and a square root.  It also had a
> really great feature on the front with those regular function
> keys; a MEMORY! <snip>

> Last week, while buying a
> replacement cartridge for my printer (for $28), I saw and
> purchased a Casio calculator as a backup.  It has 250 functions,
> including nice stat functions, and cost $8.99.

Moore's Law, illustrated.

Stephen

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