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Originally Posted by Barrykgerdes
Digital calculators were accounted for by five on each hand and only a small fraction of the class could use these accurately in any case but we at least had trig and log tables.
Barry
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Hi,
Aha yes, now did anyone use Chamber's 7 figure log tables? I still have a copy somewhere, with my Sun Hemmi slide rule.
The first calculator I ever had was a Texas Instruments SR-50 bought off a bloke who came around to my workplace (Email at Rosebery) in about 1975. He was flogging that one and a Hewlett Packard which had Reverse Polish Notation. I didn't know any forward Polish, much less RPN, so I bought the TI. I remember it cost about $350, which was an enormous amount in those days, but I claimed it on tax. I was hooked. I used to take it to meetings and calculate away, giving everyone else the pip.
Cheers