hjp: sf: ideas: calculator

Pocket Calculator

year written year set author title quote note
1963/1964 ca. 2100 Arthur C. Clarke The Sunjammer Diana ’s tiny computer—the size of a matchbox, but the equivalent of a thousand human mathematicians—considered the problem for a full second and then flashed the answer.

Story is set two centuries after Joshua Slocums solo circumnavigation of the earth (1895 – 1898)

The computer is probably not a pocket computer, but certainly small enough to be carried in a pocket.

1967 First prototype of a pocket calculator (TI)
1972 First scientific pocket calculator (HP 35)
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