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[camallison]

Young Al,

I'm now in a state of advanced if not terminal gloom and despondency. When I saw the Thread title I thought 'Ah, now I'll find my old Calculator', but of course it's about Calculators not Calculators

Back in the early '70s I had, or at least I persuaded the Company, twice, to buy me a particular Programmable Calculator. The advantage it had, apart from being Programmable, was that it was big, about the size of medium Paperback. That meant that it had a good big display - LED? - and keys that you could actually use without a Magnifier. It wasn't a 'Desktop' type - it was meant to be portable - although it was quite heavy, and got very hot on the back. I think it was made by one of the Computer Manufacturers, NCR perhaps, although I can't remember which.

I've searched many times in all the usual places but never found it.

Anyone recognise the description?

Alan

Could it have been the NCR 18-16, made by Busicom:

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/n...unior.html

NCR rarely actually made anything themselves, but financed development by companies such as Busicom. In the early 70s, I worked for Mohawk Data Sciences and then Commodore and in both cases, we badged some of our product for NCR and shipped it in their colours, brown and cream. NCR even funded a lot of early microprocessor development too.

Colin