On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 6:29 PM Rick Bensene via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Tony wrote: > > > Didn't Singer own Friden (or at least the name) at one point? I am sure > > I've seen calculators > > batched(sic) 'Singer Friden').
> Singer effectively began the death of internal electronic calculator > development at Friden when it quietly started selling the transistorized > Friden 1112 electronic calculator, which was made in Japan by Hitachi, > purchased under a temporary OEM agreement between Singer and Hitachi. > > The 1112 was an experiment to see how well the machine sold. It did > reasonably well, and that was enough for Singer to slowly begin to dismantle > the Friden electronic calculator development operation, and start selling > OEM-acquired (from Hitachi initially) calculators under the Singer/Friden > badge. By coincidence I bought a Hitachi KK521 (later version with vacuum fluorescent display tubes, not Nixies) a couple of weeks back. I read that it was also sold as the Friden EC1117A. -tony
