The real competiter of the electronics calc in Japan was the traditional calc called "Soroban." Soroban was everywhere. Every children studied how to use Soroban in their elem school as formal subject. Every town and village had many Soroban school for kids in still 70's or 80's. and stll now. Japanese didn't use type writer so many used the personal computers in their daily use since 1995, after the Windows 95 and the internet begun. For me as a Japanese, I was given the Sharp Function Calc from my dad as the high school entrance on late 70's. Maybe it costed about 10k yen. Those days doller yen was 1 doller to between 300 yen and 180 yen! the age of so dynamic move.

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TY for writing this! It's a nice insight.:)

Thank You so much for uploading this series. I grew up in japan and wasn't around computers in the home until the 00's back in the USA. I think like a lot of people I've grown up with technology as a mystery and a black box. Coming into consciousness with calculators and desktop computers and not thinking of the journey the technology has come, how fast, and the minutia. I started learning electronics and electrical engineering and this has be an aesthetic and educational find. I've been racking my brains trying to get transistors and the descriptions and visual aid they used really helped. Interesting it's a Foreign Ministry of Affairs video from Japan and it's targeted towards Americans. Is it?

Great!

So strange that these brilliant minds couldn't think of making their hot room with one flexible plastic wall with holes through which their hands could pass, so they could manipulate the calculator in his heated chamber without getting hot themselves... Almost unbelievable. I wonder what they do for manufacturing processes in the thousands of degrees? Do they walk inside the hearth of the steel furnace and bring water to drink?