Sentence examples for a desktop calculator from inspiring English sources

The term "personal computer" was believed to have first appeared in a Hewlett-Packard advertisement for a desktop calculator in 1968.

Along with the potter's wheels and organic-farming tips, the catalog featured a state-of-the-art offering from Hewlett Packard: a desktop calculator that cost $4,900.

It delivers 2.5 volts and can power a desktop calculator for 15 minutes.

This was the same size as a desktop calculator and could hold 256 programming steps.

Taxes are just the next step, although it may take some getting used to for people who are accustomed to preparing their returns with a pencil and calculator or on a desktop computer.

Clean a desktop computer keyboard.

A 1968 ad for a Hewlett-Packard desktop calculator was not the first occurrence.

If, along the way, every species had speciated into two descendants every 4 million years, this would give a number of species equal to 2400 which is so big that my desktop calculator refuses to calculate it, but which I make out to be something near 10, which is a number vastly superior to the number of atoms on earth (ca. 10).

Like other single-use devices — the answering machine, the desktop calculator, the Rolodex — it is being shoved aside by a multipurpose device: the smartphone and its camera, which takes better snapshots with each new model.

Four years later the company introduced the first desktop calculator.

"That was well before the desktop calculator or the personal computer.