electronic calculator

Many will say that the rotting of our brains really began in spring 1967, when Texas Instruments unveiled the Cal-Tech, the world’s first true handheld electronic calculator.

Inevitably, this is a drop from the 1970s, before the age of the electronic calculator, when, at its peak, 3.2 million pupils sat at the national soroban proficiency exam in a year.

With multiplication the electronic calculator gives you a slight speed advantage.

As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator.

Then, when I was about 8 years old, I got an electronic calculator, which in 1973 was a big deal.