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LGR Tech Tales - The Calculator Wars!

🕑 Added 2016-01-04 00:01:08 +0000 UTC

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Hilarious

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!

LGR

Glad to hear it, sir :)

Gary Leigh

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

LGR

I do not, sadly!

Alexander Moon

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

ReeseRiverson

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.

Steven Zakulec

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

LGR

Thank you, glad to hear it!

LGR

I do, and I've picked up several in LGR Thrifts!

mavrick

do you have a collection of any of these?

Justin Dotson

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

Alyxx the Rat

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

Alyxx the Rat

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

LGR

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

LGR

Awesome, thanks!

LGR

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&dat=19750726&id=i68zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IjIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6964,2425213&hl=en" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19750726&id=i68zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IjIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=6964,2425213&hl=en</a> "The 1975 status symbol on the school campus is the pocket calculator.."

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

Jess the Stampede

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!

Ant Field

Totally agree. Clint's Tech Tales are awesome.

Ant Field

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

The Enforcer

Calculators. Serious business.

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.

LGR

Glad to hear it, and thanks so much for the support!

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!

LGR

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

LGR

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.

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!