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 ...

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They can do everything from plot complex equations to even play games like Doom (if you have enough rotting potatoes) but the handheld calculator started out as a very simple device capable of ...

DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Jerry Merryman, one of the three men credited with inventing the hand-held calculator while working at Dallas-based Texas Instruments, has died. He was 86. Merryman died Feb.

WASHINGTON –- In 1965, the consumer electronics revolution that would result in PCs, iPods, smart phones and myriad other electronic devices was still years off. And the predecessors of the integrated ...

RICHMOND, Va. (DC News Now) — The days of using hand-held calculators aren’t entirely gone, but when it comes to testing in Virginia, they’re not as prevalent as they once were. The Virginia ...

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