You might say this analogous to complex 'duplex' slide rules, which had double the functions of a one-side slide rules.
When shiftable function keys were introduced, with the HP65, the number of functions doubled.
The cursor on a slide rule is analogous to the Memory keys on a calculator. Subsequent manufacturers of seven-segment displays for electronic calculators included Dialight, Fairchild, Litronix, Motorola and Texas Instruments.Įlectronic semi-conductor manufacturers leveraged the 'SLIDE RULE' reference as a way to impart confidence in potential buyers that the new devices would do everything that a slide rule could do, but with more significant figures and automatic decimal point positioning, The advanced scientific slide rules added keys to save key strokes and having to calculate exponents and engineering exponentiation, as well as more memory functions. The Light-Emitting-Diode, so crucial to the miniaturization of the battery powered calculator, was invented in the mid-1960s by the US company Monsanto and marketed together with Hewlett Packard. LSI/ICs stuffed several thousand transistors and diodes into a small low-power usage package needed for many operations of transendental functions.
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What made the portable electronic calculator small enough to be as portable as a slide rule was the inventions of Large Scale Integration (LSI) by Ted Hoff of Intel and Integrated Circuits (ICs) by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments. The slide rule industry should have been paying attention. The article goes on to say: "The Electronic Digital Slide Rule (EDSR) of the future not only will be smaller and easier to operate than the conventional slide rule, but it will also be more accurate.". In the July 1968 The Electronic Engineer, authors Hermann Schmid and David Busch wrote about: "An Electronic Digital Slide Rule - If This Hand-SizedĬalculator Ever Becomes Commercial, the Conventional Slide Rule Will Become Another Museum Piece". When the slide rule calculator was first developed and made available to the common public in 1972, it was only natural to name these very pricey marvels for the tools they were about to replace. Between 19 there were about 100 models of 4-function 'pocket' (some would be considered portable at least) calculators being manufactured or rebranded for the consumer market. This differentiates them from the four-function (+,-,x,/) calculators first introduced in 1970. Add in square, inverse (CI scale), and Sin, Cos and Tan trig functions and you have what was on Mannheim slide rules defined in 1850. Slide Rule Calculators are defined as electronic calculators having the same functions as found on a Basic slide rule with A,B,C and D scales, minimally a multiply, divide and a square root key. In the next month of August, 1976, Pickett Industries followed suit, stopping all production of their slide rules. Coincidently, barely one month later on July 11, 1976, Kueffel & Esser, the oldest and largest slide rule manufacturer in the United States, produced their last slide rule. There was no cost benefit to new students, technicians and engineers to buy a slide rule anymore, as everyone could afford the TI-30. In ISRM's opinion, the official date of the death of the slide rule occurred on Jwhen Texas Instruments introduced the single chip TI-30 scientific slide rule calculator for $24.95 USD, which was below the cost of a comparable slide rule. However, because the exhorbitant manufacturing cost of the HP calculators put them out of reach of 90% of the general populace, the slide rule continued its popularity and usefulness for four more years. Some students sold their cars to be able to afford one. Even though the introductory price was $395.00, engineers and engineering students flocked to the stores to get these (much like the iPod craze of today). The HP-35 was named by Bill Hewlett for the number of keys on the calculator and in 1972 was the beginning of the demise of the slide rule as we know it, Hewlett-Packard announced the HP-35 as a fast, extremely accurate electronic slide rule with a solid-state memory similar to that of a computer. However, the first hand-held calculator with scientific or 'slide rule' functions that was offered to the public was by Hewlett-Packard. Texas Instruments (TI) invented the first integrated circuit in 1958, courtesy of TI inventor Jack Kilby, and the hand-held calculator, a prototype called "Cal Tech", invented by TI's Jerry Merryman in 1967. With related calculators from the early 80's Electronic Slide Rule Calculators (1972-1979)
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