Jerry Merryman, one of the inventors of the handheld electronic calculator that changed computing forever, has died. He was 86.
Jack Kilby and Jerry Merryman, right, in 1997 at the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, Montana.
"He had an incredible memory and he had an ability to pull up formulas, information, on almost any subject."Jerry MerrymanAnother former Texas Instruments colleague and friend, Ed Millis, said,"Jerry did the circuit design on this thing in three days, and if he was ever around, he'd lean over and say, 'and nights.'"
Merryman added,"Silly me, I thought we were just making a calculator, but we were creating an electronic revolution." "He'd scrape together a few cents to go to the movies in the afternoons and evenings and the police would come get him out ... because their radios would break and he had to fix them," said Merryman's wife, Phyllis.
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