'Calculator Games' book (late '70s)

[bandit957]

Anyone else remember this book?

I got this book at a book fair in kindergarten. It was really cool. It featured a bunch of cool games you could play using standard 8-digit calculators of the era. It might have been called 'Fun With Calculators' or something, but I'm pretty sure it was 'Calculator Games'

It had a blue cover with spacey 1978-era artwork. I remember the publisher was based in Racine, Wisconsin.

I wish I still had this book, but I can't find any mention of it on the Internet.

[Road Hog]

The one game I remember was typing 7734 and turning the screen upside down.

[amroad17]

Don't forget "80085". 

[Rothman]

Don't forget "80085". 

Or...55378008...

[Big John]

There was 1 girl who was 16 and had 69 3 times  (11669x3)  What was she?  LOOSE

[bandit957]

I remember one of the games was called Torment. The object was to multiply the numeric value of all the letters in a word to see how high the number could get without going over the calculator's 8-digit limit. 'Torment' and 'warnings' came close. I know I found a word that was higher, but I don't remember what it was.

[jp the roadgeek]

Another one to try is 71077345.

[roadman]

Another one to try is 71077345.

142 Arabs fought 154 Iranians over 69 oil wells for five days.  Who won the battle?

14215469 X 5 - turn the calculator upside down for the result.

[roadman]

Anyone else remember this book?

I got this book at a book fair in kindergarten. It was really cool. It featured a bunch of cool games you could play using standard 8-digit calculators of the era. It might have been called 'Fun With Calculators' or something, but I'm pretty sure it was 'Calculator Games'

It had a blue cover with spacey 1978-era artwork. I remember the publisher was based in Racine, Wisconsin.

I wish I still had this book, but I can't find any mention of it on the Internet.

Is this the book?  https://www.alibris.com/Calculator-Games-Michael-Donner/book/884115?matches=7

[bandit957]

It this the book?  https://www.alibris.com/Calculator-Games-Michael-Donner/book/884115?matches=7

I think so.

[frankenroad]

I remember that book, and another that came out in the early 70's - "The Push-Button Phone Song Book".   Touch-tone phones were still a rarity in those days.  I had the book in high school, but no longer have it. 

Here's a link to it on Amazon - mine looked exactly like the one pictured.
https://www.amazon.com/Pushbutton-Telephone-Songbook-1/dp/B000LIFU8S

As you can see, it says Volume 1, but to my knowledge, no additional volumes were ever published.

[roadman]

I remember that book, and another that came out in the early 70's - "The Push-Button Phone Song Book".   Touch-tone phones were still a rarity in those days.  I had the book in high school, but no longer have it. 

Here's a link to it on Amazon - mine looked exactly like the one pictured.
https://www.amazon.com/Pushbutton-Telephone-Songbook-1/dp/B000LIFU8S

As you can see, it says Volume 1, but to my knowledge, no additional volumes were ever published.

Touch tone service cost an extra fee, presumably because your lines had to be set up differently.  However, by about 1975, ALL lines could accommodate touch tone service.  But Ma Bell continued to charge the extra fee until telephone divesture in 1982.

[bandit957]

I also remember a big yellow book titled 'Still More Answers'. I remember reading it while staying home from school when I was sick.