Happy 42nd Birthday to the Microsoft name...

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(11-30-2017 03:25 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Jebem you worked at Wang Computers? I read that their desktop calculators were the first scientific ones back in the 1960 (then HP came).

On wikipedia the history of the company is quite sad after they were fixed with battling IBM for large mainframes.

I had a physics class the fall of 1976 in College, and they had a Wang calculator in the room with Log and Trig functions on it.. It used orange Nixie tubes and I remember how slow the result from Trig functions were with it...