Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > alt.folklore.computers > #214593

Re: Curta Calculators

Show all headers | View raw

Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:



>It certainly is true that pocket calculators made the slide rule obsolete. After the
>HP 35 scientific calculator came out, the writing was on the wall for the slide
>rule - and when basic, non-programmable scientific calculators started becoming
>available for prices less than $30, then indeed it no longer made sense to buy a
>new slide rule.

>The HP 41CX, however, came out much later than that, and was quite expensive - it
>was a programmable calculator which could also display words, as it used a 14-segment
>liquid crystal display while still having a LED calculator form factor instead of being
>completely flat like typical LED calculators. It came out too late, and was too expensive,
>to have had any effect whatever on the fate of the slide rule!

I own both a HP35 and a 41CV and 41CX. Great meachines.


-- 
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close..........................
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

Back to alt.folklore.computers | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Curta Calculators Jason Evans <jsevans@mailfence.com> - 2020-09-20 20:20 +0000
  Re: Curta Calculators J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 16:51 -0400
  Re: Curta Calculators "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-09-20 22:48 +0200
  Re: Curta Calculators Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-09-20 23:30 +0100
    Re: Curta Calculators J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 18:46 -0400
      Re: Curta Calculators Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-09-21 00:56 +0100
        Re: Curta Calculators J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 20:10 -0400
          Re: Curta Calculators Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-09-21 08:49 +0000
        Re: Curta Calculators JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 09:15 -0500
    Re: Curta Calculators Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2020-09-22 17:12 -0500
      Re: Curta Calculators Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-22 15:46 -0700
        Re: Curta Calculators David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2020-09-23 04:00 +0000
        Re: Curta Calculators John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-23 18:53 +0000
          Re: Curta Calculators Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-09-23 23:32 +0100
            Re: Curta Calculators "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-09-24 11:33 +0200
              Re: Curta Calculators Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-09-24 17:44 +0100
                Re: Curta Calculators Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-24 11:21 -0700
                Re: Curta Calculators Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-09-24 15:32 -0300
                Re: Curta Calculators J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-24 15:46 -0400
                Re: Curta Calculators Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-09-24 23:38 +0100
                Re: Curta Calculators Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-09-24 19:44 -0600
                Re: Curta Calculators scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-25 15:28 +0000
          Re: Curta Calculators Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-23 15:36 -0700
          Re: Curta Calculators Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2020-09-23 18:22 -0500
  Re: Curta Calculators Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-20 17:46 -0700
    Re: Curta Calculators J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 20:53 -0400
    Re: Curta Calculators Chris <xxx.syseng.yyy@gfsys.co.uk> - 2020-09-21 13:10 +0100
    Re: Curta Calculators Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-25 20:23 -0700
      Re: Curta Calculators Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-25 20:25 -0700
      Re: Curta Calculators David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2020-09-26 22:58 +0000
  Re: Curta Calculators maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-21 08:34 +0000
    Re: Curta Calculators Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-09-21 01:55 -0700
      Re: Curta Calculators maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-22 12:14 +0000
    Re: Curta Calculators Niklas Karlsson <anksil@yahoo.se> - 2020-09-21 08:56 +0000
    Re: Curta Calculators J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 13:28 -0400
      Re: Curta Calculators Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2020-09-21 19:00 +0000
        Re: Curta Calculators Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-09-21 13:53 -0600
          Re: Curta Calculators "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2020-09-21 22:39 +0200
        Re: Curta Calculators J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 18:17 -0400
          Re: Curta Calculators Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2020-09-21 23:01 +0000
          Re: Curta Calculators Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-09-21 19:05 -0600
      Re: Curta Calculators maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-22 12:16 +0000
  Re: Curta Calculators Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2020-09-21 18:58 -0400
    Re: Curta Calculators JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 09:27 -0500
    Re: Curta Calculators Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-09-22 19:20 +0000
      Re: Curta Calculators J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 15:44 -0400

csiph-web