Early LED calculators overview, vintage calculators from the seventies

Early LED calculators overview, vintage calculators from the seventies - Erix Collectables #75

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Erix Collectables #75 - My LED calculator collection from A to Z. Including Texas Instruments, Sharp, Casio, Canon, Sperry Remington, Omron, Radio Shack, Unisonic, Prinztronic, Privileg, and many many more!
My calculator videos:
#69 An introduction in collecting calculators • Collecting vintage LED...
#70 Hewlett Packard 1972-1979 (LED era) • Hewlett Packard LED ca...
#71 Hewlett Packard 1979-1999 (LCD era) • Hewlett Packard LCD ca...
#75 ‘70s LED Calculators • Early LED calculators ...
#76 Texas Instruments TI-58/59 and PC-100 • Texas Instrument TI-58...
#77 ‘80s LCD Calculators and Pocket Computers • Top collectable calcul...
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@michaelmanke8656 5 ай бұрын

This is pure gold! I was looking since years for my first calcualtor, which i bought 11 years old in 1980. Found some more, later bought models. Great idea, this video!

@RevolutionaryPrepper-rg9kb 10 ай бұрын

Wow, I've never seen so many different calculators in all my life! Ty for posting this video, good job!

@Blackadder75 4 жыл бұрын

My grandfather had one of those early TI scientific calculators in the seventies. It might be a TI-30 but it looked different. They probably made countless variants. I always played with it when I visited them in the eighties. I loved the red lights in the dark.

@GayorgVonTrapp Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@marcoberti3432 Жыл бұрын

I still use my HP 25, bought new in 1976 straight from Hewlett-Packard Italy !

@rapscallion3506 2 жыл бұрын

Impressive. Thanks for sharing.

@ruffark 4 жыл бұрын

I still love my hp 20s, bought it in 95 still works like a charm. Last week I caved and bought a Texas instruments nspire cx II, the ti 83 needed a friend :)

@androo4519 3 жыл бұрын

A fine and intelligently curated collection. You have very good taste and some very desirable calculators. I collected calculators (mostly LCD) when I was a teenager in the early 1980s and it was always Casio for me, though I liked Panasonic's calculators too. In the UK Texas Instruments didn't really have as good a reputation as Casio or Sharp, or so it seemed to me. Google 'androo smugmug calculators' and you will find my present day collection.

@amazingcato5315 2 жыл бұрын

Nice collection. Very clean. You should have some Panasonic and Compucorp calcs too. They both have unusual looks to them. I used to collect LED calcs too. I still have a Sharp EL-8 and a Sperry Remington 661.

@davestorr6764 3 жыл бұрын

Great collection and well presented 👍

@ErixCollectables 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@richiec.7637 3 жыл бұрын

Casio also makes very, very durable watches. I have a solar one I've been wearing for over 10 years. It has the atomic clock feature so the time is always accurate. Changes between daylight savings and standard time automatically. I've never done ANYTHING to the watch and it's still running today.

@russellhamner4898 Жыл бұрын

10 years barely breaks those Casio watches in. I had an early 90s vintage G-Shock that I bought with a couple weeks' worth of lawnmowing money in elementary school that is surely still running if only I hadn't lost it a while back. Timex Ironman watches are the same way. The Japanese make very high quality stuff at reasonable prices; Casio G-Shock and Timex Ironman watches are the Honda and Toyota of watches, respectively. Or is it the other way around?

@juancarlossanchezveana1812 Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@ErixCollectables Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching (and subscribing I hope - that really helps my channel)!

@fivish Жыл бұрын

Your Genesonic is what I had in 1975 as a Decimo 2001e. Cost me £50.

@nickw22689 Жыл бұрын

I am passionate about vintage tech so thank you for this video, and what a beautiful collection. So cool about the Braun calculator inspiring the iPhone one.

@ErixCollectables Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind message.

@deanpratley125 2 жыл бұрын

I remember the green or red face calculators with the bulbous type individual lenses over each number.

@ErixCollectables 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, these are probably the Nixie-tube displays, they look very similar to LEDs but technically they are officially different. I took the liberty to call them all "LED calculators" to not be overly technical.

@russellhamner4898 Жыл бұрын

The display in my HP-22 has those little bubble lenses over each individual digit, as the actual digits are like 2mm tall. Most of those green displays are actually fluorescent displays of some sort, although there are surely green LED displays on some calculators out there SOMEWHERE. Been thinking about buying a Nixie tube alarm clock.

@EJEuth Жыл бұрын

That NOVUS Mathematician @ 5m:24s - I have one too. A rare sample of non-HP rpn calculator (real red LEDs).

@m80116 2 жыл бұрын

They should start making retro-looking VFD calculators again. I'd never buy a modern calculator because of... apps. I have fond memories of the Canon Palmtronic from my heyday. BTW the fact that 50 years later you can pop some Alkaline batteries in and use all of this 1970s bonanza is astonishing. No tech of today I am sure could still be usable after half a century.

@EJEuth Жыл бұрын

SR-40 @ 09m:30s was my first scientific calculator here in Brazil, in 1976. At that time, it was a huge improvement over slide rules, or 4 operation calculators (as you have shown at the beginning of this video) or handbooks this dozens/hundreds of pages for log/trig operations.

@warsaw28 3 жыл бұрын

I had the casios. They were awesome. 😜👍

@nicolasdiazpavez5069 Жыл бұрын

The Olympia CD46 is identical to the Panasonic 8203, I have one 💖

@anamarinadias2543 Күн бұрын

I didnt see the one i still use. Sanyo mini calculator. Says mini but its huge.

@russellhamner4898 Жыл бұрын

I still use my little HP-22 business calculator that I inherited from my Dad a while back. He bought it in 1975 when he - if I'm recalling this correctly - passed the CPA exam. It's on like its fourth set of batteries but it still runs and is still beautiful. It has sentimental value but it is also just a really good calculator that has held up really well. Buttons still nice and snappy, no dry rot on the rubber button pad apparently. Made in Singapore!

@ErixCollectables Жыл бұрын

Great that you're still using the HP calculators. They are extremely well-built, and great calculators. Thanks for watching!

@richiec.7637 3 жыл бұрын

Do they even make calculators like this anymore? I'm 63 and use calculators and it's getting harder seeing the lcd displays now. I remember the old red led ones. I think it was back in the early 70's. They seemed magical. I remember wondering how they could calculate so fast and were always right...lol

@Crazytesseract 3 жыл бұрын

The Sperry Remingtons were mostly made by Casio. I am interested mostly in Casio and to some extent Sharp, HP. Note: I don't own any vintage non-LCD devices.

@markgreco1962 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@MagicPatagonia 3 жыл бұрын

Great music!

@arisriyanto1751 3 ай бұрын

Maybe You need thes one, Casio 801-MR is rare and beautiful item but nothing review on youtube ( maybe you like its) 😊

@ownerthegamer1218 2 жыл бұрын

I have casio ml-78, sadly it stopped working in 2000

@anthonybrown3198 2 жыл бұрын

I just picked up a 1988, Calculated Industries, Canadian Real Estate Master Financial IV. Dunno why but I got pretty excited when I saw it. There is no manual and I have no idea how to use its functions. Any insight?

@EJEuth Жыл бұрын

Beautiful collection, although several shown are not LED, but high voltage VFD (green digits).

@ErixCollectables Жыл бұрын

Thanks. And yes, I should have explained that some are VFD and some are Nixie tube. But I simplified a bit. more to make the distinction with 'recent' LCD displays.