desk calculator in a sentence

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1. His unpublished report ( 1975b ) mentions the use of a Wang 720 desk calculator, which had only a few kilobytes of memory.
2. Their job was to compute ballistics trajectories used for artillery firing tables, mostly using mechanical desk calculators and extremely large sheets of columned paper.
3. They invented many products like the Wanderer Conti, the first desk calculator in the world with a printer in it, and the Nixdorf-Universalcomputer 820.
4. Beside him was a holstered pistol with belt, next to a desk calculator and a box of tissues and two bottles of mineral water.
5. The Japanese seven segment VFD meant that no patent royalties needed to be paid on desk calculator displays as would have been the case using Nixies or Planaplex neon digits.
6. In 1944, D . F . Ferguson, with the aid of a mechanical desk calculator, found that William Shanks had made a mistake in the 528th decimal place, and that all succeeding digits were incorrect.
7. Among them were tiny monitoring devices powered by the very phone line they tap, a ballpoint pen, a small desk calculator and a power strip-- all concealing tiny transmitters that can eavesdrop on a room.
8. The desktop metaphor treats the computer monitor as if it is the user's desktop, upon which " objects " such as documents and desk accessories are also available, such as a desk calculator or notepad, etc.
9. This was an advanced feature for the time; many desk calculators of this era had fixed decimal points and required very wide displays to maintain a minimum level of precision across the entire range of numbers available.
10. A photo snapped by Arafat's personal photographer showed a grim-faced leader huddling with advisers, keeping his holstered pistol next to him; it lay on a table next to a desk calculator, a box of tissues and two bottles of mineral water.