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Not even a mention of the 41C Message #1 Posted by Iqbal on 5 Aug 2011, 2:44 p.m. http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=26149281

Re: Not even a mention of the 41C Message #2 Posted by Marcus von Cube, Germany on 5 Aug 2011, 3:00 p.m., in response to message #1 by Iqbal Neither of the HP 35.

Re: Not even a mention of the 41C Message #3 Posted by Namir on 5 Aug 2011, 3:20 p.m., in response to message #2 by Marcus von Cube, Germany Both the HP-35 and the HP-65 are in the Smithsonian museum of technology. Namir

Re: Not even a mention of the 41C Message #4 Posted by Kiyoshi Akima on 5 Aug 2011, 3:50 p.m., in response to message #1 by Iqbal Interesting that the blurb claims the "first calculator" was an upgrade from the "calculators then in use."

Re: Not even a mention of the 41C Message #5 Posted by Frank Wales on 6 Aug 2011, 10:30 a.m., in response to message #1 by Iqbal Quote: http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=26149281 So, how can the Mark I have been "The World's First Electronic Calculator", when it wasn't an electronic calculator? It was an electro-mechanical calculator, as a glance through its operation manual clearly shows. Unless the distinction between solid-state circuitry and gears and relays isn't important in defining the world's first "forerunner of all modern computers", of course. In other news, Curtas Do Not Look Like That.

Re: Not even a mention of the 41C Message #6 Posted by Dan W on 6 Aug 2011, 4:35 p.m., in response to message #5 by Frank Wales Quote: In other news, Curtas Do Not Look Like That. So in a news story purporting to give us some interesting historical tidbits on early calculators, they photoshop a Curta to look like a grenade. And they present it as truth, never bothering to state it was, apparently, a joke. Mainstream news is disgusting to me. Every story I see, which I have some detailed knowledge of (mainly aerospace or astronomy topics) has falsehoods that could easily be corrected if they cared. I remember after this huge duststorm that hit Phoenix last month I decided to watch one of the alphabet national news shows to see what they had to say. In a story about 1 minute long there were 4 falsehoods. All of them designed to make it more extreme, unusual, and apocalyptic than it really was.

Re: Not even a mention of the 41C Message #7 Posted by bill platt on 6 Aug 2011, 8:44 p.m., in response to message #6 by Dan W Yep. It is true. They screw up all the time.

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