Smartphone killed the calculator star. Some thoughts... and data too

[John R]

(02-06-2016 03:50 PM)Joseph_21sv Wrote:  Maybe, if you will pardon the blasphemy, HP axed the electronic input facility from the 42S project because they had inside information on what features examination boards would preclude the acceptance of the calculator on examinations and never told the public that part of the story.

It's possible, but it's speculation. I'm wondering if anybody has another source for this, or if anybody else has actually heard this before.

I'm also wondering if anybody might have a source for what calculators, if any, were actually certified for use on various exams in the late 1980s. Was this a thing back then? Between the late 1980s and mid-1990s I took the SAT, the ACT, several SAT achievement tests, the GRE, and several GRE subject tests, and I don't remember using any calculator on any of them...but I could be mistaken.