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echo: memories
to: Kurt Weiske
from: Joe Mackey
date: 2012-08-01 06:45:28
subject: Pocket calculators (was: Re: Silver coins)

Kurt Weiske -> Joe Mackey wrote:

 KW> I'm old enough that pocket calculators just started showing up in homes

  I recall first seeing them around 1967/68 and in the small town I lived
in they were sold only in a jewelry store and cost several hundred dollars.
  My first one cost something like $30 around 1977 and that was on sale!
  Joe

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