On 02/08/2018 10:23 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:10:18 -0000, wrote:

On Thu, 08 Feb 2018 15:13:46 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:


It used to be old folk didn't know what a computer was, and the
teenagers were the ones on the bulletin boards. (First computer - ZX
Spectrum)

Speak for yourself. I was in the computer business 53 years ago.
They did run on kerosene tho ;-)

Wouldn't those be more correctly called industrial calculators?

Not really.

http://www.hpmuseum.org/srw.htm

There's a calculator... it could do square roots with nothing but
gears, cams, springs, and electric motors. It would also happily try to
divide by zero until you unplugged it.