INTRODUCING

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CHRONOLOGICAL ARCHIVE

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This is The Second Earliest Known Public Press Release for a commercial transistorized desktop calculator (March 17, 1964). Our museum recently discovered it via advances in digital archival and search of period newspapers. 

 



WYLE Laboratories First Public Demonstration of
                    The WYLE Scientific (WS-01)
       Production Model from the "Second Batch."
    Matthew A. Alexander led the demonstrations at the Datamation Computer Conference
in Washington D.C.
                           (April 21, 1964 - First Day)
                                     

ENLARGEMENT

Sales Literature for the WYLE Scientific (WS-01)
Calculator shown Is from the "Second Batch"
Note that it is the same setup as the one used in the April 21, 1964 Datamation conference catalog. 

ENLARGEMENT

May 1964
(June 1964 "Cover Date")
Scientific American
This ad was located on page #1. Right after turning the cover page is this ad!!! (Volume 210 Number 6)

Page #1 (first page after turning the cover!!!)

ENLARGEMENT

May 24, 1964
"Major responsibilities will be to organize and manage a national network of sales offices and franchise dealers for the marketing of a unique electronic calculator."

August 1964
(September 1964 "Cover Date")
Scientific American

Page 8

Close-up

Close-up (lower-left of Page 8)

Back Inside Cover

September 3, 1964
WYLE Announces The WYLE Scientific "System"

The American Statistician, April 1965, VOL 19, No 2.

Science, VOL. 149,  August 27th 1965

March 31, 1967
Princeton Daily Clarion
(Princeton, Indianna)

April 1967 (May "cover date")
Radio-Electronics

April 8, 1967
Using the WYLE Scientific as a Computer Aid in Teaching Mathematics in the Los Angeles City Schools