High Tech Apprentice

In all the turmoil of college and preparing for a premature marriage, a small highlight on the 12th February 1976 was the arrival in my life of a CBM scientific calculator.

The SR7919 :


CBM, that was Commodore Business Machines, the Ford Motor Company allowed the apprentices to buy these little wonders on the "never-never" taking fifty pence a week out of our pay packets.

The calculator was probably manufactured in England, but the company was founded in 1958 in Toronto, Canada.