Various Calculators and Their Stories
Cold War Calculations
Tradicionalni kineski abacus
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In the 20th century, Western bloc countries developed technology much faster, thus mechanical calculators were replaced by digital ones much more quickly than in Eastern bloc countries.
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In the production of pocket-sized digital calculators, the leaders in the West were the USA, Japan, West Germany, and the UK, while the Eastern champions were the USSR, East Germany, and Bulgaria.
While prices of calculators were drastically reduced in the West in order to dominate the market, the Soviets engraved their prices on the casings.
While prices of calculators were drastically reduced in the West in order to dominate the market, the Soviets engraved their prices on the casings.
Calculators in Space
The Cold War between the West and the East also took place in space, and calculators in space missions served as a backup solution for calculating trajectories, entry angles into the atmosphere, and fuel consumption.
In 1969, the Americans used the Italian programmable desktop calculator Olivetti Programma 101, popularly known as Perottina, for landing on the Moon.
The first pocket-sized digital calculator in space was the HP-35 used in the American Skylab 3 mission in 1973, and the first digital calculator to spend more than a year in space was the Soviet Elektronika MK36, brought to the Mir space station in 1986 by cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.
The first pocket-sized digital calculator in space was the HP-35 used in the American Skylab 3 mission in 1973, and the first digital calculator to spend more than a year in space was the Soviet Elektronika MK36, brought to the Mir space station in 1986 by cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko.