Desktop devices that do sums

Usage examples of calculators.

It was what come of buying paternalistic gadgets, high-strung, humanistic calculators, oversensitive, emotional machines.

And of these the analogue computers, the electronic calculators, were the gyroscope of all living.

He went to the glass wall and looked out and down as if he were half afraid the calculators might know what he had done.

Engineers with pocket calculators became soothsayers to the terrified.

Those fools with their calculators, always saying that something won't work.

Solar-powered calculators rested in belt holsters on engineers and vice presidents alike.

In a corner of the board room, as disapproving as the ex-Prebendary, sat Johnny's four lawyers, also sipping Perrier and fingering calculators at the prospect of litigation.

He then proceeded to bore the meeting rigid with details of expenditure on stationery and calculators, and whether it was really necessary to supply the sales' staff with portable computers.

Everyone got out their calculators, trying to work out whether he was in or not.