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There are One Billion Calculators from Casio….

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In all the fuss and excitement that was CES, one major milestone seems to have got missed out. Casio have sold their one Billionth calculator. The first (the 001) was launched in 1965, the graphing calculator showed up in  1985 and it seems that the world still can’t get enough of them.

  Milestones Notes
1957 Launch of the 14-A, the world’s first fully electric compact relay calculator On display at the National Science Museum in Japan
1965 Began sales of electronic calculators Launch of the 001, the world’s first electronic calculator with memory function *
1969 Casio’s total global calculator sales reach 100,000  
1972

Casio Mini, the world’s first personal calculator, is launched
Casio’s total global sales of calculators pass the 1 million and then 2 million marks

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1974 Casio’s total global calculator sales reach 10 million  
1976 Launch of the Denkuro, combination calculator with clock function *
1980 Casio’s total global calculator sales reach 100 million  
1983 Launch of the SL-800, a 0.8-mm thin credit card size calculator Archived at the Museum of Modern Art, New York *
1985 Launch of the fx-7000G, the world’s first graphing scientific calculator Archived at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. *
2004 Launch of the fx-83, the first scientific calculator with natural mathematic display  
2005 Launch of the fx-9860G scientific calculator featuring graphing and natural mathematical display  
2006 Casio’s total global sales reach 1 billion calculators  

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