In the 1970s, inexpensive electronic calculators, using microchips, displaced adding machines altogether. Calculating machines, which could multiply (and, sometimes, divide), met a similar fate. The ...
But once upon a time there were machines that could perform only a subset of these functions; these might be classified somewhere between computers and calculators. One such machine was the ...
In the 1970s, inexpensive electronic calculators, using microchips, displaced adding machines altogether. Calculating machines, which could multiply (and, sometimes, divide), met a similar fate. The ...