Calculator This led the way to the first credit-card-sized calculators, such as the Casio "Mini Card LC-78" of 1978, which could run for months of normal use on button cells. There were also improvements to the electronics inside the calculators. All of the logic functions of a calculator had been squeezed into the first "calculator on a chip" integrated circuits (ICs) in 1971, but this was leading edge technology of the time and yields were low and costs were high. Many calculators continued to use two or more ICs, especially the scientific and the programmable ones, into the late 1970s. The
Compact Snap! Compact Snap! Compact Snap! is a greatest hits CD collection from The Jam. It is an abbreviated version of the vinyl double-album "Snap!", originally released in 1984. "Compact Snap!" is the second greatest hits album by The Jam. The "Compact Snap!" CD omitted 8 tracks from "Snap!" in order be released as a single CD. The omitted tracks were "Away from the Numbers", "Billy Hunt", "English Rose", "Mr. Clean", "The Butterfly Collector", "Thick As Thieves", "Man in the Corner Shop" and "Tales from the Riverbank". The result is that "Compact Snap!" is a collection of all "The Jam"'s singles, with