At 07:35 pm 05-05-05 -0400, you wrote: > > >Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> By 1971 integrated circuits were already one of the largest industries >> on earth. > > >Indeed. The HP35 scientific calculator was introduced when I was a >sophomore at GaTech in 1973. It cost $635. >
I got my lab to buy me one complete with little magnetic strip you could feed through them. They were fantastic at the time. Such was the pace of progress that a few years later they were in the South Kensington Science Museum as museum pieces. Frank Grimer
