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
Programmable calculator now available. It is installed via a cable or IrDA connection with a computer. RPL is a special Forth-like programming language used by Hewlett- Packard in its high range devices. The first device with RPL calculator was the HP-28C released in 1987. The language PPL was introduced with the HP Prime calculator and is much like Pascal An on-board (i.e. right on the calculator) assembler for TI 89 and related calculators was announced and released in 2014. Machine language programming was often discouraged on early calculator models; however, dedicated platform hackers discovered ways to bypass the built-in interpreters on some