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LGR Tech Tales - The Calculator Wars! (Patreon)

Published:
2016-01-04 00:01:08
Edited:
2016-01-06 02:23:26
Imported:
2021-03

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LGR - Tech Tales - The Calculator Wars

This episode covers the rise of the pocket and scientific calculators in the 1960's and 70's, and how they affected tech history! Join me in LGR Tech Tales, looking at stories of technological inspiration, failure, and everything in-between!

Comments

Anonymous

Jeez, who'd have thought calculators would be so darned interesting. And cutthroat.

Lindsay Michelle

Was there a "personal calculator crash" like the video game crash in the 80s? It doesn't sound like it, but it sounds like there were way more companies making personal calculators at first - I guess like you said, they just pulled out when profits got smaller. Also, fun fact - my dad worked at Rockwell for many years until ArvinMeritor (just Meritor at the time) bought them out. He worked at Rockwell Automotive, technically, but it's still a part of Rockwell International!

LazyGameReviews
>>1161259

It definitely crashed in a way, but not in the sense that the market died! Basically just oversaturation on low end and the high end market moving onto more advanced calculators and microcomputers.

LazyGameReviews
>>1161222

Happy to edutain! Calculators really are fascinating, and there's a ton I left out here. Thinking of doing a follow-up, actually.

Maniko, conduit of hugely adorable, massively destructive beans

I love those tech tales. They are what brought me to you and your patreon and youtube channel, so it's great to see one where I - in a very small way - helped with the making! ;) Keep up the good work, this was really fascinating and well told!

Eric Christopher

I love the functionality of calculators over the years. Designing circuitry with logic functions myself has made me adore these complicated yet simple machines.

Anonymous

Calculators. Serious business.

Anonymous

This is exactly the kind of video that initially led me to your channel. LOVE it!

Anonymous

I absolutely love these videos Clint! I'm not a techie, like at all, I'm actually borderline technophobe since any technology seems to easily break by my hands (the curse of being a Butter Fingers!). But you make these videos easy to follow so I don't feel left behind by computer jargon, and I'm a sucker for documentaries of any kind, so it's always fascinating to learn the stories behind the shiny doodads on store shelves!

Anonymous

Aaah, yes! Love all your videos, but tech tales is definitely my favorite series.

LazyGameReviews

Hehe, it's referenced quite a bit as such in old articles. Check this one out: <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&amp;dat=19750726&amp;id=i68zAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=IjIHAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=6964,2425213&amp;hl=en" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&amp;dat=19750726&amp;id=i68zAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=IjIHAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=6964,2425213&amp;hl=en</a> "The 1975 status symbol on the school campus is the pocket calculator.."

LazyGameReviews
>>1162242

Very cool to hear, that's definitely my goal -- educating and entertaining even those that don't otherwise have an interest :)

Alyxx the Rat

I LOVE these videos. Tech Tales is now probably my favourite series of yours.

Alyxx the Rat

This video really reminds me of the Kraftwerk song Pocket Calculator...

Justin Dotson

Now I need a gold and silver calculator for some bling.

mavrick

do you have a collection of any of these?

Anonymous

Saw this on Archive.org: <a href="https://archive.org/details/MoHPC_DVD_Set_v7" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/MoHPC_DVD_Set_v7</a> Museum of HP Calculators DVD

Anonymous

Really great to learn about tech like this, it really gives a good insight of how things came to be simply from calculators. Especially when companies began moving to computers themselves.

Alexander Moon

That silver digital watch only displaying time in red is awesome. Do you know the brand/model?

Anonymous

This is the stuff that makes it worth being a patreon supporter.

Anonymous

The production quality of these keeps increasing, this was the best one yet! Do you have that Commodore calculator? My first real calculator was the Casio FX 85v. It was a beast!

Anonymous

Hilarious