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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1967 was the first hand held.</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=billcun@suddenlink.net
href="mailto:billcun@suddenlink.net">Bill Cunningham</A> ; <A
title=simh@trailing-edge.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 27, 2016 8:05
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Simh] pdp11 and unix</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Well, 1976 is a far cry from the 1950s...<BR><BR>
Johnny<BR><BR><BR>Bill Cunningham <<A
href="mailto:billcun@suddenlink.net">billcun@suddenlink.net</A>> skrev: (27
februari 2016 23:59:06 CET)<BR>>Calculators I'm thinking of are "HandHeld"
and the IC by Jack
Kilby.<BR>><BR>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kilby<BR>><BR>>1976.
The "year the slide rule died" They say.<BR>> ----- Original Message
----- <BR>> From: Johnny Billquist <BR>> To: <A
href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</A> <BR>>
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 5:05 PM<BR>> Subject: Re: [Simh]
pdp11 and unix<BR>><BR>><BR>> On 2016-02-27 20:46, Paul Koning
wrote:<BR>> ><BR>>>> On Feb 27, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Bill
Cunningham<BR>><<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<BR>>it was some early calculators that
killed slide rules. What kind of<BR>>"processor" were they using? I'm not
so sure there was real HLL before<BR>>Adm. Hopper. And no binary by Babbge.
Do you have any links or anything<BR>>from the '40s?<BR>>
><BR>>> HLL? I was talking about assembler... Anyway, I
don't believe COBOL<BR>>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<BR>>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. Idol<BR>>
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