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Soviet Calculator History (1998)

OVIET CALCULATORS HISTORY by Sergei Frolov The first calculators The first mechanical device used in Russia for computational purposes was the Russian abacus (schoty). This device became "the national calculator" and was used in cashier's offices down to the middle of the 90's.

"Science and Life", started in October 1983 a special section named "Man with the calculator", talking about how to work with the B3-34, and including plenty of useful and game programs. The magazine "Engineering - Youth", beginning in 1985 included a column on programming the B3-34 under the name "The Calculator - your assistant" , and then organized the "Club of Electronic Games", which printed the most fascinating and fantastic stories: "The True Truth" and "Way to the Earth", here the readers were given the chance "to run into" the engineering of "landing" on a lunar surface and carry out a flight back from the Moon to the Earth by a ship, not adapted to such lunar flights, called the "Kon-Tiki". It is characterized by the simplicity in the execution of operations (algebraic addition and shift), the significant similarity of the algorithms applied for various functions and, most importantly, for the high speed and accuracy of the calculations.

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