A $150 gadget turned math class into a battleground nobody expected.

Last month we touched upon the world of 1970s calculators with a teardown of a vintage Sinclair, and in the follow-up were sent an interesting link: a review of a classic Sinclair calculator kit from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Texas Instruments TI-30 calculator retailed for $24.95 in 1976 at O’Neil's department store in Akron. Look, I’ve never been ...

At the start of the 1970s the pocket calculator was the last word in personal electronics, and consumers in Europe looked eagerly towards Japan or the USA for a glimpse of new products. Meanwhile the ...

Over the thousands of years—yes thousands of years—that calculators have existed, they've taken many forms. The era of the electric calculator is fairly recent in the grand scheme, having only started ...

For a brief time in the 1970s, the calculator represented the height of office design chic. Desktop calculators came in pops of primary colors or encased in wood paneling. They were expensive. Elite.

While we might have started out using our fingers and toes to count, humanity has been busy designing machines to help with calculations for hundreds of years. From early counting devices to modern ...

Look, I’ve never been good at math. I still get palpitations when I think about how my fifth grade teacher at Portage Path Elementary School made us do arithmetic on an overhead projector in front of ...