They can do everything from plot complex equations to even play games like Doom (if you have enough rotting potatoes) but the handheld calculator started out as a very simple device capable of ...

Although the calculator of the future may resemble a handheld computer, Hewlett-Packard has decided that now is not the time to merge the two. The company has pulled the plug on Xpander, a graphing ...

In the course of the 1970s, handheld electronic calculators transformed the way tens of millions of people did arithmetic. Engineers abandoned slide rules, business people gave up desktop calculating ...

In 1966, there were no cheap, reliable keyboards. The keyboards that did exist were too bulky and expensive to work for the calculator. Jim Van Tassel took on the task of designing a small, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. If you’ve ever used an electric hand-held ...

WASHINGTON –- In 1965, the consumer electronics revolution that would result in PCs, iPods, smart phones and myriad other electronic devices was still years off. And the predecessors of the integrated ...

Jerry Merryman, one of three men credited with inventing the handheld calculator, died on Feb. 27 from complications of heart and kidney failure, The Associated Press reports. He was 86. Between 1965 ...

Calculators, a no-no in classrooms a few decades ago, are everywhere these days, with supporters saying the small hand-held devices have helped revolutionize math education. Since the mid-1980s, when ...