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An urban legend about that. The main entrance to Johnson Space
Center wasn't actually Houston, but a little berg called, Webster.
It's just a little main street with a couple dozen stores. (Or was
in those days) One of those stores being a mom-pop office supply.
The story goes that one of the astronauts bought a calculator with
his own money and took it on one of the flights as personal gear to
test out. The little store supposedly had a sign in their window
for years about how they had supplied the first hand-held calculator
in space. Now this may not have been the "official" first, but
given how slowly any government agency moves I tend to believe this
legend.<br>
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On 11/25/2015 7:38 PM, Phil Haney via Stagecraft wrote:<br>
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<span>"The first advanced desktop calculators hit the market in
roughly the same time frame, with scientific and then
programmable pocket calculators appearing during the following
decade. The first <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_calculator"
title="Programmable calculator" target="_blank">programmable
handheld calculator</a>, the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-65" title="HP-65"
target="_blank">HP-65</a>, was tried on backup computations
aboard the Apollo Command/Service Module in the <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo-Soyuz_Test_Project"
title="Apollo-Soyuz Test Project" target="_blank">Apollo-Soyuz
Test Project</a> in 1975."<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer"
target="_blank"></a></span><br>
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