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22<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1">
23  <colgroup>
24    <col class="middle">
25    <col class="middle">
26    <col class="middle">
27    <col class="bemerkungen">
28  </colgroup>
29  <tr>
30    <th width="20%">type or manufacturer[year of construction]</th>
31    <th width="10%">storage</th>
32    <th width="15%">attached periphery</th>
33    <th width="55%">annotations</th>
34  </tr>
35  <tr>
36    <td><b>Antia</b>[1962]</td>
37    <td>thyratrons</td>
38    <td>-</td>
39    <td>The world's first electronic desk calculator. First generation,
40        tube technology (especially thyratrons). Nixie-display</td>
41  </tr>
42  <tr>
43    <td><b>IME 84</b>[1964]</td>
44    <td>core memory</td>
45    <td>-</td>
46    <td>The worlds's first transistorised desk calculator.
47        Nixie-display</td>
48  </tr>
49  <tr>
50    <td><b>Canola 130</b>[1965]</td>
51    <td>flip-flop</td>
52    <td>-</td>
53    <td>first calculator with "floodlight display",
54        transistor technology</td>
55  </tr>
56  <tr>
57    <td><b>WANDERER Conti</b>[1965]</td>
58    <td>core memory</td>
59    <td>-</td>
60    <td>The world's first printing electonical desktop calculator.
61        It uses threaded ROM for very simple and solid programs.</td>
62  </tr>
63  <tr>
64    <td><b>FRIDEN 130</b>[1965]</td>
65    <td>delay line memory</td>
66    <td>-</td>
67    <td>The world's first desk calculator with display on
68        cathode ray tube; 4 registers are displayed
69        (with germanium transistors)</td>
70  </tr>
71  <tr>
72    <td><b>Olivetti Programma 101</b>[1965]</td>
73    <td>delay line memory</td>
74    <td>integrated reader for magnetic cards</td>
75    <td>First desk calculator that saves programs on magnetic cards
76    (stores up to 120 instructions). The delay line memory has a
77    capacity of 240 Byte. Pure transistor technology</td>
78  </tr>
79  <tr>
80    <td><b>IME 86</b>[1966]</td>
81    <td>core memory</td>
82    <td>remote control</td>
83    <td>Nixie-display. Lovely designed remote control</td>
84  </tr>
85  <tr>
86    <td><b>DIEHL Combitron</b>[1966]</td>
87    <td>delay line memory</td>
88    <td>punchcard reader and puncher</td>
89    <td>Germany's first freely <i>programmable</i> desk calculator.
90        <br />The complete version is extremely rare. The device's
91        calculator features only 130 transistors. The operating system
92        is internally booted from metallic punchcards. Rarity!</td>
93  </tr>
94  <tr>
95    <td><b>WANG 320 S</b>[1966/67]</td>
96    <td>core memory</td>
97    <td>punchcard reader, manual punchcard reader</td>
98    <td>One of the world's first scientific programmable desktop
99        calculators. Extremely rare. 2 of 4 pluggable keyboards.
100        Pure transistor technology. Very fast computation of
101        exponents and logarithms.</td>
102  </tr>
103  <tr>
104    <td><b>HP 9100 A bzw. 9100 B</b>[1968]</td>
105    <td>core memory</td>
106    <td>incl. attached printer</td>
107    <td>First desktop calculator by HP. Totally scientific, threaded ROM.
108        Recording programs on magnetical cards. CRT display. Transitor
109        technology</td>
110  </tr>
111  <tr>
112    <td><b>WANG 700</b>[1969/70]</td>
113    <td>2KB core memory</td>
114    <td>Complex printer (standalone device) that can plot, too. Mark
115        Sense Card Reader, punchcard reader, DIN A0 flatbed plotter,
116        additionally alphanumerical keyboard, Microface, double cassette
117        drive with formated bands.</td>
118    <td>Milestone of computer engineering! First IC-technology (DTL, TTL).
119         Very intricately threaded ROM. Many years the world's fastest
120         desk calculator. Big doublespaced display featuring nixie tubes
121         (x-, y- Register), program storage on cassetts. Extremely expensive
122         device (28.000&nbsp;DM + many more than 50.000&nbsp;DM for
123         periphery). Very rare.</td>
124  </tr>
125  <tr>
126    <td><b>WANG 550</b>[1971]</td>
127    <td>semiconductor memory</td>
128    <td>-</td>
129    <td>trimmed-down version of the WANG 700 - single-line nixie tubes
130        display, thermal printer, cassette drive.</td>
131  </tr>
132  <tr>
133    <td><b>HP 9810</b>[1971]</td>
134    <td>semiconductor memory</td>
135    <td>Plotter, paper tape reader, external cassette drive</td>
136    <td>Has the same logic like the HP 9100, but was built with
137        TTL-technology. First device with LED-display (3 lines).
138        Magnetic card reader, thermal printer</td>
139  </tr>
140  <tr>
141    <td><b>WANG 600</b>[1972]</td>
142    <td>semiconductor memory</td>
143    <td>printer/plotter, Mark Sense Card Reader</td>
144    <td>Perfomance-related viewn it is set between the WANG 700 and the WANG 500.
145        Still with threaded ROM. Programs on cassettes.</td>
146  </tr>
147  <tr>
148    <td><b>HP 9820</b>[1972]</td>
149    <td>semiconductor memory</td>
150    <td>Printer, plotter, punchcard reader, external cassette drive</td>
151    <td>World's first desk calculator with algebraical language and
152        alphanumerical display on a 5x7 dots LED-matrix, Magnetic card
153        reader, thermal printer</td>
154  </tr>
155  <tr>
156    <td><b>HP 9830</b>[1972]</td>
157    <td>semiconductor memory</td>
158    <td>Thermal printer, plotter, high speed paper tape puncher,
159        paper tape reader</td>
160    <td>The world's first BASIC-programmable desktop calculator.
161        Alphanumerical display for 32 chars on a 5x7-dots LED-matrix.
162        A calculator with so much periphery is very rare</td>
163  </tr>
164  <tr>
165    <td><b>Olivetti Programma 652**</b>[1973]</td>
166    <td>semiconductor memory</td>
167    <td>typewriter for output, paper tape puncher, cassette
168        drive, band drives, hard disc drive</td>
169    <td>complete installation in the "Bauhaus" style from the 70s.
170        The bad documentation from Olivetti is remarkable. Hard disc
171        drive with immotile multiple head</td>
172  </tr>
173  <tr>
174    <td colspan="4">
175       <p>More desk calculators: Olympia RAE (different types, 1965): Calculator with core memory that is not programmable, germanium transistors and nixie tubes (floating point).
176        Compucorp 322, 324 (1972): Scientific "pocket" calculator.
177        Olivetti Programma 602 (1971): Same logic like Programma 101, but uses DTL, TTL IC-technology and semiconductor memory
178        DIEHL Combitronic (1971): Same logic like Combitron, uses already MOS-technology (logic with only 6 ICs) but still delay line memory and booting from metallic punchcards.
179        DIEHL Alphatronic, shift register as storage, with seperated punchcard puncher and punchcard reader (about 1973).**
180        Canon 1614 P (1973): Programmable calculator with integrated punchcard reader and seperated printer (no manual). **
181        TI 59 on PC 100 printer console (1977): programmable pocket calculator with recordings on magnetic cards.
182        HP 9821 (1973, like 9820 but with cassette drive), HP 9815 (1976) ** and many more...</p>
183
184        <i>**) For lack of space, these devices are stored in the archive</i>
185    </td>
186</table>
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