Olympia CD75

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The West German Olympia business machine company, in cooperation with the Japanese Matsushita factory, mainly supplied the European markets with modern electronic calculators through joint efforts. The first palm-sized machines were followed by pocket-sized models. They differed only in their colors and labellings: in the Japanese domestic market they were sold under the National Panac brand name, in the American continent under the well-established Panasonic brand name of Matsushita, while in Europe they were distributed by Olympia International. In 1975, a more elegant family of calculators, thinner than before, operated with built-in batteries, was released: while Matsushita built their models with LED displays, which were reminiscent of their first handheld calculators (JE-2000 series), Olympia’s OEM models with vacuum-fluorescent displays had completely different features and design. CD 75 had accumulating memory, fixed and floating point rounding modes, while CD 76 had standard memory and square root capability. In 1976, both types were replaced by the CD 75S and CD 76S versions built with modified circuits.