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On Jul 29, 3:58 pm, The Real Bev wrote:
On 07/28/10 17:39, 234 wrote:

The Real Bev wrote:


* The pocket calculator (1971)


Electronic calculator, roughly the size of an adding machine, came out
much earlier. Nixie tubes.


Nope, not that much earlier.


Yeah it was. We may still have it :-(


I used an electronic calculator with Nixie tubes in 1962 at
University.
Quite possbly this model:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumlock_ANITA_calculator