[HN Gopher] The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)
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       The Calculator-on-a-Chip (2015)
        
       Author : Bogdanp
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-07-05 16:38 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.vintagecalculators.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.vintagecalculators.com)
        
       | classichasclass wrote:
       | Commodore infamously used TI chips in their calculators too,
       | leading to the situation where Jack Tramiel was getting massively
       | undercut by TI using the same chips in their own TI calculators
       | for less. Buying the ailing MOS Technology gave him the vertical
       | integration he wanted and enabled him to force TI out of the home
       | computer market only a few years later. Revenge is such a dirty
       | word.
        
       | Dwedit wrote:
       | Now we just need that one cool article about the Sinclair
       | Scientific Calculator. It was a scientific calculator that was
       | made to run on an underpowered chip intended for regular four-
       | function calculators.
        
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