Wang 300 Calc

[Sridhar Ayengar]

der Mouse wrote:
>> (On the other hand, who uses a calulator any longer?  For me,
>> anything more than one or a couple of multiplications or divisions,
>> and it's straight to the spreadsheet app kept idling in the
>> background.)
> 
> Me, for example.
> 
> First, calculators are a lot more physically portable than "the
> spreadsheet app kept idling in the background" (which in my case is
> rather different, but I'm using it to refer to any kind of calculator
> facility on a computer).  I have calculators in parts of the house
> where there is no computer handy.
> 
> Second, the user interface is, at least in my experience of calculators
> and programs that can serve for similar purposes, substantially
> better-designed for the task.  Part of this is the physical
> portability, but not all; a general-purpose keyboard is not the best
> input device for calculator functionality.

Third, it's a lot easier to do things in other number systems on a 
calculator than on a spreadsheet.  That isn't to say it's impossible, 
it's just hard.

Peace...  Sridhar