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1. Once Upon a Pocket: Programmable Calculators from the Late 1970s and Early 1980s and the Social Networks Around Them.

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Ristanović, Dejan and Protić, Jelica

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*CALCULATORS, *TEXAS Instruments programmable calculators, *PROGRAMMABLE calculators, *SOCIAL networks, *TI Programmable 59 (Calculator), *CALCULATORS in education, *PUBLIC opinion, *EFFECT of technological innovations on popular culture, *TECHNOLOGY in popular culture, *POPULAR culture, *HISTORY, *TWENTIETH century, *HISTORY of popular culture
Abstract

Programmable pocket calculators of the mid-1970s opened up a new segment of the personal computing devices market. Calculator users established clubs, magazines, and conferences, and their interaction with manufacturers shaped the products' further development. This article explores one of the understudied roots of personal computing, through the evolution of the user communities formed around the TI-59 and HP-41C calculators. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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2012
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