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Calculator Books: The Pocket Calculator Game Book 2 (paperback)
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Title: | The Pocket Calculator Game Book 2 |
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Author(s): |
Edwin Schlossberg and John Brockman. Edwin is a Ph.D. in Science and Literature From Columbia University living at the time in Massachusetts and John an author of contemporary philosophical works living in New York (where else?). | |
| First edition: | 1978 | |
| Publisher: | Corgi Books a division of Transworld Publishers Ltd, Century House, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London W5, UK | |
| This example | First paperback edition. Printed by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk, UK. | |
| ISBN: | 0 552 98034 X | |
| Printed pages | 208 | |
| Cover: | No credit is given for the cover which uses an imaginary Unigram mini 8M which is modelled on a number of possible calculators popular at the time. | |
| Size: | 127mm x 197mm (w x h) | |
| Price: | £0.85 in the UK ($2.45 in Australia and $2.65 in New Zealand) | |
| Contents: | Contains another 50 calculator games which the contents breaks down into; One Player, Two Players, Three or More Players, and Group Games. | |
| Comments: | Not much different from book one to be honest. Same sort of games; getting to a number, setting a digit, battling to raise or lower a number etc. It’s beginning to look a bit laboured now – so they even throw in a carton of a naked Eve for the game entitled “Approach”. | |
| Notable Quotes: | "Pocket calculators have become a part of our lives. Unknown six years ago, they are now as popular as televisions or hi-fi sets." "We are not so much interested in what your pocket calculator can do as we are in what you can do with your pocket calculator." |
