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- From: anthony@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Anthony J Stieber)
- Subject: Re: An old Commodore calculator
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.053412.12764@uwm.edu>
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- Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- References: <1992Aug19.205435.11305@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 05:34:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.205435.11305@Princeton.EDU> woodhams@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Michael Woodhams) writes:
-
- >I hadn't even realised Commodore ever made calculators, or that they
- >existed as long ago as 1974. What did they do before making the PET?
-
- I've got two Commodore calcuators. One is a C108, four function, 8
- electroflorescent (blue) digits, a bit under five pounds. AC power
- only. The other is a cute little "Minuteman" model MM3S, 8 LED digits,
- AC adapter jack, and has been hacked up to use standard 9v batteries
- rather than the dead rechargable. This unit has the luxury of squares
- AND square roots! Hot stuff, for the 1970's.
-
- I just turned on the larger of the two paperweights, and I notice that
- digits are entered from the left to the rightmost position. This is
- the opposite of all the other (four) stand alone calculators in the
- house and I think, most other calculators. The latter machines scroll
- the display right to left to make room for digits as they are entered.
-
- Why is this? I would think that not scrolling the display would be
- easier on both the machine and the eyes. The decimal point does
- wander even if the number of decimal places is the same.
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