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Originally Posted by maximara
The Popular Science ad was likely a high end calculator.
"By 1977, a liquid crystal display calculator known as the Teal LC811 sold regularly for $24.95, with a sale price of $19.95. By 1985, the solar-powered Sharp EL-345 sold for $5.95. Both of these calculators were made in Japan. The Sharp not only carried out arithmetic and found percentages, but had a square root key. Both calculators had limited memory for results of computations." ( Electronic Calculators—Handheld )
So there were really cheap calculators in the late 1970s and "dirt" cheap ones by the 1980s. |
I was born in 1960. If you do the math you'll see that I was looking at very early pocket calculators.