March 02, 2009 04:26PM
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Precisely MJ...
I agree wholeheartedly with you.
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Did any here have one of the first pocket calculators? I did; IBM.
Cost circa $300 in 1971 and could;
Add, Subtract, Multiply & Divide.
It could and would do that perfectly every time. It is my belief the AE could flawlessly repeat these basic steps over and over again to make the four sides square, aligned nearly perfectly with N-S-E-W, and maintain a constant slope until the project was done.
Round about 1978 Texas Instruments had a mother beautiful pocket calculator. Add Subtract Multiply Divide Square to the Nth power, Square Root to the Nth power, sine, cosign, tangent plot medians, had Pi built in. Memory, and you could save and execute basic programs with new data only.
Cost about $18.
iimho We are taking the attributes of the second and attributing them to the AE when they could have used the 1st just fine.
I will probably continue to believe this until someone can show some evidence they had advanced calc in some period accurate artifact.
And I will probably also continue to resist suggestions the reason such evidence does not exist is because the knowledge was "secret"....
Jammer
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