Product Category: Calculators
Montgomery Ward P50 Calculator
I am sure that I didn’t purchase this, I think it was inherited from my grandparents. My grandfather called Montgomery Ward ‘Monkey Wards’ According to the Smithsonian– This handheld electronic calculator has a tan plastic case and seventeen rectangular plastic keys. In addition to ten digit keys and a decimal point key, it has a
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Alcor Grand Prix Calculator
This was my very first calculator. Ordered out of the back of a magazine in the mid 1970s. the back cover slides up and the battery comes out and plugs directly into a 110V AC receptacle. This company also made similar or simply rebranded versions called the Monte Carlo and the Bond. See the Vintage
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Sinclair Cambridge Programmable
The Cambridge Programmable was my first programmable calculator. I ordered it out of a dubious advertisement in the back of a magazine. It was not overly expensive and one of those ‘8-10 week’ delivery items that you are never sure if it will actually arrive. Overall, it seemed too good to be true but once
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