Nspire

History of the Calculator

  • The Abacus
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    The Abacus

    As early as 300BC, before numbers were invented, the Abacus was used to keep track of the sale of goods
  • The Pascaline

    The Pascaline

    The Pascaline was the first adding and subtracting machine. It was invented by Blaise Pascal in France. He developed it to deal with taxes.
  • Anita MK8

    Anita MK8

    The first vaccum based caclulator is intorduced by Anita
  • Sharp CS-10A

    Sharp CS-10A

    Sharp introduces the first transistor calculator called the CS-10A
  • Sharp Electric

    Sharp Electric

    After many revisions to the calculator, Sharp introduces the first electric calculator.
  • TI-83

    TI-83

    Texas instriments introduces the TI-83, an advanced graphiing calculator
  • TI-Nspire CAS

    TI-Nspire CAS

    The first color screen, computer algebra system calculator is introduced by Texas Instruments