math in today's comics

[Don Shepherd]

(05-01-2017 02:31 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  Your memory is far too generous, the 71B has only 1-line of 22 characters. I agree better machines of that type have come along, but one never forgets his first love.

Ah yes, a peek at the museum would have refreshed my memory.

First love. I was lucky, I married mine 43 years ago and we are both enjoying our new first grandchild now.

Calculator-wise, the first one I remember was a Chadwick "Magic Brain" that had a stylus you inserted and pulled the numbers down to add or up to subtract. I was amazed at how that worked. Then there was a Hasbro toy mechanical calculator that worked similarly as I recall. My first electronic was the Victor MEC 2, a beautiful but costly machine that unfortunately died when I left it sitting on the AC charger without the charger being plugged in, I think; that incident taught me to read manuals.