HeathKit Calculator

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>>>> Anyone remember the HeathKit
calculator kit? It was a four function,
LED
readout kit based (I think) on a Bomar
design, sold about 1973 or
thereabouts for $99.95 if I remember
correctly.

Heath fans,

I remember the 70s calculator era, but
not this particular Heath model. I
bought the TI SR-50 for $150 (in 1973)
and was overjoyed -- it would do trig
functions, logs and roots ;) ! Did you
know that the first HP calculator --
the HP-35 -- cost $395 (US) when first
introduced? I believe these two "early
birds" are finding their way into some
of the technology museums around the
world. The equivalent amount of
computing power and battery life can be
found today -- at your corner drug
store for about $15.00. But, they don't
have the romance of the past, now do
they ;) ? If you want to explore the
early pioneering years of calculators
you might enjoy the following sites:

"X number" Calculator page -- URL:
http://www.dotpoint.com/xnumber/
Museum of HP calculators -- URL:
http://www.teleport.com/~dgh/hpmuseum.ht
ml

... now let me see if I can remember
how to do a "cube root" on the old
Pickett slide rule... wonder where I
put that thing ;) ? (Was that the "K"
scale? .... hmmmm)

73 - Conrad Weiss - NN6CW

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