LGR Tech Tales - The Calculator Wars!
Added 2016-01-04 00:01:08 +0000 UTC
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Hilarious
2017-08-17 21:53:01 +0000 UTCThe 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!
2016-01-09 07:02:27 +0000 UTCGlad to hear it, sir :)
LGR
2016-01-08 22:46:07 +0000 UTCThis is the stuff that makes it worth being a patreon supporter.
Gary Leigh
2016-01-08 22:42:58 +0000 UTCI do not, sadly!
LGR
2016-01-07 21:25:58 +0000 UTCThat silver digital watch only displaying time in red is awesome. Do you know the brand/model?
Alexander Moon
2016-01-05 22:37:08 +0000 UTCReally 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.
ReeseRiverson
2016-01-05 04:12:49 +0000 UTCSaw 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
Steven Zakulec
2016-01-05 01:10:07 +0000 UTCThank you, glad to hear it!
LGR
2016-01-05 00:47:06 +0000 UTCI do, and I've picked up several in LGR Thrifts!
LGR
2016-01-05 00:46:56 +0000 UTCdo you have a collection of any of these?
mavrick
2016-01-04 23:50:33 +0000 UTCNow I need a gold and silver calculator for some bling.
Justin Dotson
2016-01-04 15:35:49 +0000 UTCThis video really reminds me of the Kraftwerk song Pocket Calculator...
Alyxx the Rat
2016-01-04 15:32:18 +0000 UTCI LOVE these videos. Tech Tales is now probably my favourite series of yours.
Alyxx the Rat
2016-01-04 14:54:35 +0000 UTCVery cool to hear, that's definitely my goal -- educating and entertaining even those that don't otherwise have an interest :)
LGR
2016-01-04 06:32:17 +0000 UTCAwesome, thanks!
LGR
2016-01-04 06:31:52 +0000 UTCHehe, 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.."
LGR
2016-01-04 06:31:43 +0000 UTCAaah, yes! Love all your videos, but tech tales is definitely my favorite series.
2016-01-04 04:54:35 +0000 UTCI 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!
Jess the Stampede
2016-01-04 04:23:48 +0000 UTCTotally agree. Clint's Tech Tales are awesome.
Ant Field
2016-01-04 03:26:08 +0000 UTCThis is exactly the kind of video that initially led me to your channel. LOVE it!
Ant Field
2016-01-04 03:21:20 +0000 UTCCalculators. Serious business.
The Enforcer
2016-01-04 03:09:30 +0000 UTCI love the functionality of calculators over the years. Designing circuitry with logic functions myself has made me adore these complicated yet simple machines.
Eric Christopher
2016-01-04 01:54:25 +0000 UTCGlad to hear it, and thanks so much for the support!
LGR
2016-01-04 01:29:23 +0000 UTCI 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!
Maniko, conduit of hugely adorable, massively destructive beans
2016-01-04 01:27:55 +0000 UTCHappy to edutain! Calculators really are fascinating, and there's a ton I left out here. Thinking of doing a follow-up, actually.
LGR
2016-01-04 00:34:09 +0000 UTCIt 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.
LGR
2016-01-04 00:33:40 +0000 UTCWas 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!
Lindsay Michelle
2016-01-04 00:29:00 +0000 UTCJeez, who'd have thought calculators would be so darned interesting. And cutthroat.
DH
2016-01-04 00:18:00 +0000 UTC
