electronic calculator
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May 31, 2026
Evans: 1950s IBM ad pitched refrigerator-sized calculator as 150 engineers
“The ad is, the slogan of the title of the ad is, it's an IBM ad. It says an IBM electronic calculator. This is before it was called a computer. It's an electronic calculator. It's the size of a fridge. It's like having a 150 extra engineers.”