k0ua
Epic Contributor
Great fun they were to use to. Interpolation used to be one of least enjoyable practices.
All thru high school, we all had a laminated sheet with log and sine, cosine, tangent tables on it that was provided by the US air force. They were very handy, I don't know what happened to mine, but of course we don't need them any more. I saw my first calculator after high school at the University Mo. at Rolla. It was made by Wang. It was the size of of small dormitory refrigerator and had about a dozen terminals around the room to do your calculations on. it had Nixie tubes (a type of high voltage gas discharge display tube) for a display. A year later I held a calculator in my hand. Technology really moved fast after LED's became available. LCD calculators came out a few years later. Soon they were blister packed at Wal Mart for a few bucks.