When was the first solid-state... | Quizzland Trivia Answers

Player #275636

I had a boss that told me they would work problems on the calculator and double check the answers with the abacus because they didn't trust the calculator.

ScaryLevel44555

PearlHalfling28477, by Texas Instruments

Montana Lady

I remember my dad pulling out his old slide rule to show me... yikes!

Phiend99

My first calculator was a Timex Sinclair. It had a chicklet keyboard and it's output went to the TV screen. It also had RAM..... 1024 bytes. And had BASIC on it. Really a minicomputer, but sold as a calculator in 1968 in the back of Popular Mechanics magazine. It was $200, or $100 as a kit. I saved up my birthday and allowance money to buy it. As a kit, of course.

Player BlueDragon

When I did a first year university physics course in 1973 the professor was very very proud of his electronic Calculator which could add, subtract, multiply and divide!!! He paid $100 for it and bought it in the USA. It was a Canadian university and I don't think they were available in Canada then. Wow

Player #2469460

It’s the only answer that makes sense

ruz

I think Texas instruments were amongst the first to make these and yes they are based in Texas USA

boychi07

the only decent thing you could do on a calculator was 8008135 🤣

DSDA

Montana Lady, yeah, I remember using a slide rule in school. I probably would have taken a few more science classes if I didn't have to use that frigging thing.

Player #20136064

Montana Lady, I still have my slide rule

BrainTek

they say first calculator was the abacus but really it was counting on your fingers

Louisiana

Player #275636,in High School we were allowed to use a calculator, but I did it faster by hand.

brickmartian

Gulshan, If I have three rocks and 4 sticks, how many sticks do I have?

brickmartian

Gulshan, Nope? lines of rocks laid out in the sand!😁

brickmartian

DSDA, In my school we did everything in "Long hand" on dozens of sheets of paper! I came from a large family and we had to share our paper with the rest of the family, starting first semester with 20 sheets, so I had to learn how to write really, really small, using every line, on both sides!😳

brickmartian

Taking a calculator to school in the 60s was considered "cheating", and would get you suspended! Today, they are mandatory school supplies!

Hoosiermom

I thought the Bowmar company based in Fort Wayne, Indiana developed the first electronic calculator.

Player #120374466

Player BlueDragon, Just think now days you can buy one at the Dollar Tree store.

Player #120374466

Montana Lady, Amazing , weren't those slide rules used to put rockets into space?

PUSSYLICKER 😛

ruz, BELL ACTUALLY

PUSSYLICKER 😛

ScaryLevel44555, IT WAS BELL ACTUALLY

Yve

Player #275636, I got my first calculator a year into my first job ....1974. I had always used a desk pad to calculate when I needed a little more than mental arithmetic. I checked the calculator's accuracy on my desk pad.

Big M

My first calculator was a self-assembled Sinclair Scientific - it worked a treat! 3 years later, during my first year at university, the keypad fell apart, and I had to resort to a sliderule again...

Josh

The best calculator that ever came out, and I used it for 25 years, was the HP 12C, which could do everything and a whole lot easier than a computer

Josh

The first electronic calculator, I recall was the Bowmar Brain, introduced in 1971 and costing $249!!! it was a huge hit and Bowmar was turning out 100,000 a month. Then Texas Instruments jumped in, prices dropped, and Bowmar soon disappeared.

Gulshan

Surely the abacus is the first solid state calculator?

Casper

My dad was a Merchant Seaman. His company brought the first calculators to America. I was, literally, the first kid in my neighborhood to have one.

ang

Auntie B, when o took some accounting classes in Vancouver quite a few of the students were Chinese & used an abacus. I thought it was cool until exam time - the clicking was quite distracting.

Dylan M

That's crazy how far we have come.

Player #53718633

I took out my Texas Instruments calculator, which I haven't used for some 35 years, the thing still works, the batteries haven't leaked, amazing!

Wynn

Montana Lady, I've still got my slide rule!

Sarah

I got this right because my 9th grade science teacher told us he was so excited buying the first electric calculator, it could add, subtract, multiply, and divide. Paid $100! I love this game!

Player #14168637

I used one like this in early 70s for most of an 8 hour work day. Worked up to be very fast on it. Local office supply company would bring new models in to see if my fingers were faster than buffer in calculator.