Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 08, 2014

What about the calculator wristwatch (made in ’75)? Are you a plugger still?

I remember when somebody swiped it off my desk at work! I was livid, and I did track the culprit down!

well of course I still use it you can read the screen and the buttons are bigger

My calculator for basic math is a pen and paper.

I remember that calculator. Best one I ever had.

I’m with Lady Cat!!!!!! As long as there is a US Post Office and stamps I will pay my own bills too.

PS – love Pluggers, great comic!!!!

My Radio Shack calculator watches always ended the same way — the 0 button gave out (it’s the one that shut off the alarm).

In 1974 it was high-tech.

I HAVE A CALCULATOR WRISTWATCH MY DAUGHTER FOUND IN A DUMPSTER! STILL WORKS BUT DIFFICULT TO SET THE TIME!

In high school I day dreamed someone would invent the calculator. It came to late! Then later I day dreamed about a hand held computer! WOW! I have an IPad! And it has a built in calculator!

I was never high tech enough to have one. Just pencil & paper. Still do it that way.

The calculator that was $100.00 back in 1974 is now $3.00 or a give away now.

hahah. I have 2. One at the bottom of my purse and the other in my desk somewhere. Ya, I still use them! They fit in my palm and are petite.

My dad used a device call, IIRC, an “addiator”. It was a metal thing with sliding bits inside and you used a stylus to add or subtract with it. Pretty cool device, really, but definitely pre-dates the calculator.

Luddites are stricter about NOT having modern technology than Pluggers are. They are more like even more primitive than the Amish are for what they consider OK for technology.

I still have my solar powered TI from high school and it still works.

Pluggers are old as dirt. I figure that caption can replace most of these and still fit.

It was 1972 and it was 3×6×1 inches. The display was LED and did the 4 basic arithmetic functions and extract square roots. Cost me 50 buckaroos. But I still love my Pickett Slide rule