Old Calculator Web Museum Advertising Archive
Wyle Scientific Electronic Calculator Advertisement
An advertisement for the Wyle Laboratories WS-02 Scientific" electronic
calcualtor, circa late August, 1965. The Wyle Scientific was
originally introduced as the Model WS-01, using a head-per-track magnetic
disk for its register storage, one of the very few electronic calculators
(including the Canon 167) that
rotating magnetic memory as a storage medium. The use of a magnetic disk
made the machine somewhat temperamental due to the extremely tight tolerances
of the disk drive, and also prone to "crashes" if the machine was
accidentally moved or shocked while the disk was
spinning. The WS-01 Scientific was redesigned and re-introduced as the Model
WS-02, utilizing a magnetostrictive delay
line to replace the disk memory, and was much more reliable as a result. This
advertisement appears to be for the WS-02 model.
