WASHINGTON –- In 1965, the consumer electronics revolution that would result in PCs, iPods, smart phones and myriad other electronic devices was still years off. And the predecessors of the integrated ...
In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop calculating ...
For a brief time in the 1970s, the calculator represented the height of office design chic. Desktop calculators came in pops of primary colors or encased in wood paneling. They were expensive. Elite.