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
Cloudy Cloud Calculator Cloudy Cloud Calculator Cloudy Cloud Calculator is the third studio album by Japanese musician Takako Minekawa, released on December 10, 1997. It was released by Polystar in Japan and by Emperor Norton Records in the United States. Minekawa played almost every instrument on the album and produced, arranged, wrote, and sang nearly all its songs. Minekawa toured in the United States to support the album. The album "Ximer", released in 1998, featured remixes of "Cloudy Cloud Calculator" by artists including Cornelius, Markus Popp, Sukia, and Michiko Endo (Citrus). Heather Phares of AllMusic described "Cloudy Cloud Calculator" as one of Minekawa's