He was 12. It was the best birthday gift his parents ever gave him. Not a bike, not a pair of skis, not a model rocket — it was a programmable calculator. "I was a total geek," admits Carlos Brody in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This programmable handheld electronic ...

.NET has finally been out long enough that I'm starting to see little utilities and shareware applications that depend on the .NET Framework. Here's an example that will bring a nostalgic smile to ...

Today’s supply chain issues can make it hard to buy microcontrollers, or really any kind of semiconductor. But for those keeping retrocomputers alive, this problem has always existed: ancient ...

For [Robert]’s entry into The Hackaday Prize, he’s starting off with some basic questions. What’s better than a Nixie tube? More Nixies. What’s better than a calculator? An RPN calculator. What do you ...

Greetings,<BR><BR>I'm a computer science student. As the title of this thread suggests, I'm looking for the most powerful(in terms of the criteria listed below) scientific calculator. Graphing ...

Over 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 ...

I think you'll agree – EDN needs more teardowns! In that spirit, I've taken a screwdriver to my rare and wonderful Wang LOCI-2 calculator. This machine's design seems to be from 1965, though I ...