Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/25

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Subject: [Leica] noctilux factoid of the day
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (wildlightphoto@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Apr 25 05:20:04 2008
 
Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Have you guys never heard of Friden or Marchant desktop calculators?  These 
>were way more accurate than my old K&E slide rule.  Friden even made one 
>that calculated square roots.

Not sure if they were used outside the accounting business, but the first 
computer targeted toward small businesses was the Friden (5610?) developed 
in the 1960s by my father.

Doug Herr
Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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