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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 1979
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1976
Freddie W Wenninger, Loveland, CO (US);
Donald E Morris, Loveland, CO (US);
Jindrich Kohoutek, Loveland, CO (US);
David S Maitland, Loveland, CO (US);
Douglas M Clifford, Loveland, CO (US);
Louis T Schulte, Loveland, CO (US);
John C Keith, Loveland, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An adaptable calculator is provided by employing five MOS/LSI circuits interconnected by a multiple line bus system. They include (1) a read-only memory circuit group; (2) a control and timing circuit; (3) an arithmetic and register circuit; (4) a data storage circuit; and (5) an input/output (I/O) circuit. Input and output units include a keyboard input unit and an 18-column output printer unit. An optional LED display unit may be plugged into the calculator mainframe. The keyboard input unit includes an AUTO DECIMAL POINT key for selecting an automatic decimal point mode of calculator operation in which the calculator automatically places the decimal point at a specified location in all entered data. Thus, the operator need not manually enter the decimal point in entered data. The calculator may be operated manually by the user from the keyboard input unit or automatically by a program stored in the calculator memory.