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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Calculators I'm thinking of are "HandHeld" and the
IC by Jack Kilby.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1976. The "year the slide rule died" They
say.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=bqt@softjar.se href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se">Johnny Billquist</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=simh@trailing-edge.com
href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 27, 2016 5:05
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning wrote:<BR>><BR>>> On
Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill Cunningham <<A
href="mailto:billcun@suddenlink.net">billcun@suddenlink.net</A>>
wrote:<BR>>><BR>>> Well that's certainly before ICs I think that
was in the 1950s and it was some early calculators that killed slide rules.
What kind of "processor" were they using? I'm not so sure there was real HLL
before Adm. Hopper. And no binary by Babbge. Do you have any links or anything
from the '40s?<BR>><BR>> HLL? I was talking about
assembler... Anyway, I don't believe COBOL was the first HLL, though it
certainly was fairly early.<BR><BR>The first HLL ought to have been FORTRAN.
Lisp might have been the <BR>second, but I'm not entirely sure.<BR><BR>I'm not
sure what kind of calculators Bill are thinking of. But until <BR>the early
70s, calculators were usually mechanical, or electromechanical <BR>things with
cogwheels, and definitely worked in decimal.<BR>No processors in
there...<BR><BR>Johnny<BR><BR>-- <BR>Johnny
Billquist
|| "I'm on a
bus<BR>
|| on a psychedelic trip<BR>email: <A
href="mailto:bqt@softjar.se">bqt@softjar.se</A>
|| Reading murder books<BR>pdp is
alive!
|| tryin' to stay hip" - B.
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