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Exhibition: Vintage Calculator Designs, 1968 - 1983
"The first aspirational personal electronics"
Product designer Greg Maletic collects vintage calculators. "I've had a fascination with these machines since the 70s," he writes, "when the calculators my dad would bring home from the office were the only computer-like things I could get my tiny hands on."
Next weekend in Portland, Oregon, Maletic is curating a pop-up exhibition of his collection.
"In the 1970s, calculators weren't just for calculating. They were luxury items. In a world before iPods and iPhones, calculators were the first aspirational personal electronics."
"Calculators 1968-1983 showcases these remarkable design objects, along with stories behind why they look and operate the way they do. And how, in just a few decades, one of the world's most important products went from indispensable to irrelevant."
"The exhibit highlights more than 100 calculators, all beautiful examples of late 20th Century design."
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What I would have given for a scientific calculator as an engineering undergrad in 1970! I just hated doing all the physics lab calculations on my slide rule. Sometimes I just turned in my reports with "-15 pts - no error analysis" written on them. Somehow, I made it all the way through and completed my Ph.D. in applied physics without a computer! We were stuck in the past and my x-ray diffraction data came out on teletype machine on a machine that may have been built sometime after WWII.
Please, ramble on. I enjoyed reading this comment.
going to go try to check it out!