Olivetti Programma 101 is released
Announced the year previously at the New York World's Fair the Programma
101 goes on sale. This printing programmable calculator was made from
discrete transistors and an acoustic delay-line memory. The Programma
101 could do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as
well as calculate square roots. 40,000 were sold, including 10 to NASA
for use on the Apollo space project.
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