On Sat, 2024-04-13 at 12:54 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: As a freshman, I noticed that the HP Digital Slide Rule 6-digit pocket calculator was only $600. I suggested to myy college buddy Ed Kelm that it ought to be possible to build a desk calculator that used a TV for the display. That never happened, but Ed held onto that thought and eventually designed the Lexitron dedicated-logic word processor. It had a landscape-format screen....
OOPS, a portrait-format screen.
