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The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

I remember watching my dad work on PCs, and I remember using Texas Instrument calculators in school. It was a bit nostalgic.

I'd rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I'll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!

Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

I have made number mistakes - I have such bad number dyslexia that I can look at a number and see the wrong one. I can't remember them worth beans.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.