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These were sufficiently expensive that many people got some form of Spectrum/PC before their first calculator, bang for the buck it made more sense. Then there
by thriftwy 2y ago
These were sufficiently expensive that many people got some form of Spectrum/PC before their first calculator, bang for the buck it made more sense.
Then there was a post-soviet wired phone design with Z80 in it which had a built-in calculator among other apps, which it had half dozen. Alarm clock, phone book, etc, etc. The killer feature was Caller ID variant - it could read caller's number from the PSTN and display that one. A feat that required accepting the call and then emulating the beeps.
- egorfine 2y agoAh, the glory days of feature-packed Caller IDs ("АОН"). I had a couple of those; I swear they had more (useless) features than a modern iPhone given the constraints.