VideoRecorder EL3402A 1"Reel Beeldfout (Toestel of techniek)

door Roland Huisman , Zwolle, 08-11-2020, 13:50 (1259 dagen geleden) @ Maurice

Het is maar net wat je citeert natuurlijk... Het gevecht van toen om de eerste te zijn
lijkt nu nog steeds uitvochten te worden... Dat de Ec130 een icoon is staat buiten kijf.
Maar ze waren simpelweg niet de eerste.

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/anita_mk_8.html

ANITA Mk 8

Significance:
The ANITA Mk 8, manufactured by the Bell Punch Co. of Uxbridge, England, was launched in October 1961. Together with the concurrently introduced ANITA Mk VII, for the continental European market, it was the world's first electronic desktop calculator. It was sold mainly in the rest of the world outside of continental Europe, and was announced at the Business Efficiency Exhibition, in London, in October 1961[1], but orders for it were not taken by the British distributor, Sumlock Comptometer Ltd., until January 1st 1962.

This model and the Mk VII were the only electronic desktop calculators in the world for over two years, and many thousands were sold. Like the Mk VII it has a full keyboard and uses cold-cathode tube technology.

Development of the ANITA calculators was started in 1956 under Norbert Kitz (a.k.a. Norman Kitz), who had worked on the pilot version of the ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) computer project in the mid 1940s.

The name ANITA, stands variously for "A New Inspiration To Arithmetic" and "A New Inspiration To Accounting". This became the family name for all the Bell Punch electronic models.