Last month we touched upon the world of 1970s calculators with a teardown of a vintage Sinclair, and in the follow-up were sent an interesting link: a review of a classic Sinclair calculator kit from ...

Without the Great Calculator Race of the 1970s, there would be no iPhone If you spend any time around technology, and probably even if you don’t, then you’ll probably also have heard some variation on ...

Over the thousands of years—yes thousands of years—that calculators have existed, they've taken many forms. The era of the electric calculator is fairly recent in the grand scheme, having only started ...

At the start of the 1970s the pocket calculator was the last word in personal electronics, and consumers in Europe looked eagerly towards Japan or the USA for a glimpse of new products. Meanwhile the ...

For a brief time in the 1970s, the calculator represented the height of office design chic. Desktop calculators came in pops of primary colors or encased in wood paneling. They were expensive. Elite.

While we might have started out using our fingers and toes to count, humanity has been busy designing machines to help with calculations for hundreds of years. From early counting devices to modern ...