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Before the Financial Calculator
Before the finacial calculator people used the Abacus and Counting Board which was ivented or used since 2700 BC and was a simple frame comprised of rods on which beads are moved to represent various groups of numbers. For centuries the abacus was a cutting edge device used by the Chinese, Greeks, and Romans. -
The Slide Rule
a sliding stick or discs that uses logarithmic scales to allow rapid multiplication and division. Involved advanced trigonometry and logarithms. -
Blaise Pascal
is a device that will eventually perform all four arithmetic operations without relying on human intelligence. used geared wheels and could add and subtract two numbers directly and multiply and divide by repetition. -
Comptometer
Took calculator into pushing button age.This machine also brought imatators. -
The Curta calculator
Was the ultimate expression of the ultimate calculator, so compact that it could somewhat fit in your pocket and capable of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. -
ANITA
A New Inspiration To Arithmetic/Accounting. This was the worlds first all electronic desktop calculatorand it was developed in Britain by Control Systems Ltd. -
Sharp CS10
None of these were functionally superior to ANITANone of these were functionally superior to ANITA,but their all-transistor designs opened the floodgates to a new wave of electronic calculators. -
Olivetti Programma 101
Could read and write to magnetic cards and display results on its built-in printer.Could even claim to be the first personal computer. -
The Cal Tech
A Calculator that could add, multiply, subtract, and divide, and print results to a paper tape while being compact enough to be held in the hand. -
Sharp’s QT-8D Micro Compet
This used four Rockwell chips each equivalent to 900 transistors; one to power the green fluorescent display, the second to control decimal point, the third to handle digital addition and register input control and the fourth to process arithmetic and provide registers. -
Mostek MK6010
Combined all four functions plus decimal point and display on one 4.6mm-square chip. -
Cambridge
The first low priced calculator.but had an ugly bulge in the back for the PP9v battery and with a design that frequently led to errors when doing compound sums. -
HP-65
Had a capacity of 100 instructions, and could store and retrieve programs with a built-in magnetic card reader that also formed the label to show the new assigned functions of the transferrable F-keys. -
Hp-12c
The HP-12C is HP's longest and best-selling product, in continual production since its introduction in 1981. Due to its simple operation for key financial calculations, the calculator long ago became the de facto standard among financial professionals. Its popularity has endured despite the fact that even a relatively simple -
HP 12c Platinum
Introduced in 2003, the HP 12c Platnium had a faster processor,larger memory, and more built in function The first HP 12c Platinum version (F2231A) did not have parentheses, which often led to awkward key sequences to solve problems in algebraic mode. -
Hp-12c
The original design was modifide by adding a atmel processor and other little changes to make the calculator faster and have and overall better performance -
Victor V12
Victor V12 which was a budget priced clone of the HP 12c Platinum edition. It is also available as BrtC FC-12 in Brazil. The Aurora FN1000 calculator in clamshell design was closely inspired by the HP-12C as well. -
Future
I think that the Financial Calculator in the future will be really advanced. You will probably be able to talk to it, and jt will probably be touchcreen,
