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One of the most beautiful calculators.
Do you agree?

Hello!

(07-14-2018 02:47 PM)hp41cx Wrote: [ -> ]One of the most beautiful calculators.
Do you agree?

Yes I do! And guess what, by sheer coincidence one is in the mail on the way to me right now :-) And I also like the F-61 which has a more red color scheme. Some information about this family of calculators can be found (as usual...) on datamath.org

Regards
Max

Who is the manufacturer, the front oddly does not show any name?

(07-14-2018 05:35 PM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ]Who is the manufacturer, the front oddly does not show any name?

Canon, the company that made the first pocket calculator ever (the "Pocketronic"),

(07-14-2018 06:16 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-14-2018 05:35 PM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ]Who is the manufacturer, the front oddly does not show any name?

Canon, the company that made the first pocket calculator ever (the "Pocketronic"),

Thanks Max.

I thought I've read that the Sharp EL-8 was the first pocket calculator, in Nov. 1970 (from Datamath), no?

Update: Never mind, I see (also on Datamath) that the Pocketronic was introduced 7 months earlier in April. Did not know this machine, it looks quite interesting with sideways printing.

(07-14-2018 07:03 PM)rprosperi Wrote: [ -> ]Did not know this machine, it looks quite interesting with sideways printing.

I also know it only from The Book ("Ball/Flamm: The Complete Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators") and from the internet. Whenever one comes up for auction - rarely enough - I get outbid quickly. And even if one manages to get one, the paper cartridges (it's only display!) are near impossible to find.

TI deserves the lion's share of credit for the Pocketronic. Canon just screwed the parts together.