Bowmar MX55 Personal Calculator ("Bowmar Brain")
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- Details
- Description
- Date Introduced
- 1971
- Photographer
- Richards, Mark
- Dimensions
- 1 1/4 x 3 x 5 3/4 in.
- Manufacturer
- Bowmar/ALI, Inc.
- Credit Line
- Courtesy of Michael Percy
- Copyright Owner
- © Mark Richards
- Location
- United States
- Keywords
- Pocket size; Electronic calculation
- Object ID
- 102630016
The “Brain” used red LED displays and a calculator chip from Western Digital. Licensed versions were built in Communist Hungary. Bowmar, perhaps the largest calculator manufacturer in 1973, was bankrupt by 1975.
