125 Marchant Electronic Calculator Adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides; takes square roots by iteration. Room 101 of the mathematics building once housedmany of these calculators from the time the building wasconstructed (the late 1960s) to the late 1970s. This is the only one that remains. The calculators were used in undergraduate level classes, primarily in statistics. As of the late 1990s, room 101 isstill equipped with computers, but they are now PCs. |