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Canon F-62
| Date of introduction: | year 1978 | Display technology: | LCD (yellow) |
| New price: | Display size: | 10 (8 + 2) | |
| Size: | 4.6" x 2.8" x 0.4" | ||
| Weight: | 2.6 ounces | Serial No: | 215164 |
| Batteries: | 2*CR2430 | Date of manufacture: | |
| AC-Adapter: | Origin of manufacture: | Japan | |
| Precision: | 11 | Integrated circuits: | unknown |
| Memories: | 1 | ||
| Program steps: | Courtesy of: | Joerg Woerner |
The Palmtronic
F-62 Scientific/Statistical calculator is unique within the products of Canon.
The housing looks unknown to us and we are really curious about the source of
the calculator.
The
backside of the F-62 gives us no further information. We just notive two really
big lithium batteries of the CR2430 type.
Removing
the shells of the calculator housing is disappointing, too. No name on the
printed circuit board (PCB), an unknown calculator chip manufacturer with
missing chip designation.
In a next step we use Mike Sebastian's "Calculator
forensics" and notice with the result of 9.0001495952 one sibbling in
his list: The APF Mark
8601 - probably the successor of the APF Mark 8501 known
from the
Radio Shack EC-496.
We noticed a very unusual behavior of the Canon F-62 while preforming some calculations with it:
 | The entries fill the display from the left to the right |
| The F-62 accepts only 10 digit entries but during long divisions it adds a leading "0" as 11th digit |
Fellow collector, please drop me a line if you know more about the F-62 or the APF Mark 8601.
A similiar calculator was introduced with the Palmtronic F-52, don't miss the Canon card F-63.
If you have additions to the above article please email: joerg@datamath.org.
© Joerg Woerner, June 22, 2003. No reprints without written permission.