The early days of modern computing were downright weird, and the HP 9830B is a strange one indeed: it’s a gigantic calculator, running BASIC, on a CPU implemented over a dozen cards using ...

The calculator has so much horsepower and memory, but the vast majority of its potential is crippled by horrendous inefficiencies in it’s software implementation.

Microsoft is making available the Windows Calculator source code, build system, tests and roadmap as open source under an MIT license.

Microsoft's embrace and adoption of open source software has continued with the surprising decision to publish the code for Windows Calculator and release it on GitHub under the permissive MIT ...