Tag: CALCULATOR

We've never carried them, but we sometimes wish that we had pocketwatches. You know, with a gold chain arched over the middle button of a sharp looking vest (which we've also never owned). It's a strange sentiment, particularly since most of us don't even wear wristwatches. (There's a clock on that cell phone for a reason.) A slightly less intense, but altogether similar sentiment cropped up when ...

Most of our readers are probably too young to remember the slide rule. An archaic device for doing arithmetic that was the standard before the arrival of high powered and practical pocket calculators. HP is continuing its year long celebration of its 35th anniversary by honoring the device that almost single-handedly killed the slide rule -- The HP 35. To mark the 35th anniversary of this ...