On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 12:33, Nate Carlson wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Samuel MacDonald wrote:
> > We didn't have any computers in the high school I went to.  That was
> > 1974-77 so that sort of explains it :)
> 
> Really? You didn't have calculators back then?  :)

I remember my parents buying one of the first consumer "portable digital
calculators" for my oldest sister when she went to off to collage. It
was $150. It had add, subtract, multiply, divide and square root with an
8 digit readout. I couldn't play with it. It was too expencive. That was
mid 70's. 

-- 
Tom Penney <blots at visi.com>


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