Pocket Calculator
year written | year set | author | title | quote | note |
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1963/1964 | ca. 2100 | Arthur C. Clarke | The Sunjammer | Diana’s tiny computer—the size of a matchbox, but the equivalent of a thousand human mathematicians—considered the problem for a full second and then flashed the answer. |
Story is set two centuries after Joshua Slocums solo circumnavigation of the earth (1895 – 1898) The computer is probably not a pocket computer, but certainly small enough to be carried in a pocket. |
1967 | First prototype of a pocket calculator (TI) | ||||
1972 | First scientific pocket calculator (HP 35) |
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