{"id":60886,"date":"2022-03-27T17:47:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T16:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=60886"},"modified":"2022-03-27T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T16:49:47","slug":"texas-instruments-datamath-2500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/60886","title":{"rendered":"Texas Instruments Datamath 2500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-60889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/datamath.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Instruments Datamath 2500 \" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/datamath.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/datamath-470x470.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/datamath-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/datamath-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/datamath-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Datamath 2500 was Texas Instruments&#8217;s first pocket calculator, and one of the smallest calculators on the market at the time of its release in 1972. It was about the size of a pack of 100s cigarettes in length and about 1.5 packs in thickness. It sold for $119.95 at launch \u2013 about $640 today when adjusted for inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Datamath 2500 was Texas Instruments&#8217;s first pocket calculator, and one of the smallest calculators on the market at the time of its release in 1972. It was about the size of a pack of 100s cigarettes in length and about 1.5 packs in thickness. It sold for $119.95 at launch \u2013 about $640 today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60890,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60886\/revisions\/60890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iainclaridge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}