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MoTET is an Open-Archive Site Devoted to Research Into The Origins of Personal Computing
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. . . and Preserving Yesterday's Technology, for Tomorrow.
INTRODUCING
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CHRONOLOGICAL ARCHIVE
Below 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 1ST PRESS
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WYLE DATAMATION
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)
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DatamationWS01
ENLARGEMENT
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"Yesterday, Wyle introduced a new electronic calculator that it said was faster than any calculator now on the market. The device was said to have several commercial applications. The new typewriter-size calculator sells for "less than $4,000," the company said, and fills the gap between mechanical calculators and computers."
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.
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ENLARGEMENT
WYLE FIRST AD
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)
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Page #1 (first page after turning the cover!!!)
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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."
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August 1964
(September 1964 "Cover Date")
Scientific American
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Page 8
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Close-up
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Close-up (lower-left of Page 8)
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Back Inside Cover
September 3, 1964
WYLE Announces The WYLE Scientific "System"
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The American Statistician, April 1965, VOL 19, No 2.
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Science, VOL. 149, August 27th 1965
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October 1965
The Anals of Mathematical Statistics, vol. 36, no. 5.
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1965 to 1966
Deerfield High School Yearbook
Deerfield, Illinois
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March 31, 1967
Princeton Daily Clarion
(Princeton, Indianna)
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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
Full PDF Can Be Found Here
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