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News Archive - Electrosolids Electronic Calculator Announcement
First known press release announcing the development
of an all-transistorized desktop electronic calculator by the Computron
Corp. subsidiary of Electrosolids, Inc. The Computron subsidiary was
headed by Dr. Stanley Frankel, who was a nuclear physicist heavily
involved in the Manhattan Project. After the project completed, he became
deeply passionate about computing, and over time was involved in the development
of a number of historical computers, including the General Precision LGP-30,
the Packard Bell PB-250, as well as computer designs for General Electric, and
other custom designs. Later, he became interested in the development of
"personal" computing devices, which led to developments in electronic calculator
technology, including the
SCM Cogito 240,
the added features (Square Root)
Cogito 240SR,
and later, the
Diehl Combitron.
The Electrosolids calculator product announced in this article never
came to pass, however, the working prototype design mentioned in the
article drew the interest of Smith-Corona Marchant, and an agreement was
made for SCM to purchase Computron from Electrosolids, along with the
calculator design, which, in time, became the SCM Cogito 240.