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Blog EntryCurta mechanical calculatorsApr 24, '08 4:32 PM
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I just found out about this amazing mechanical calculator, it's beautiful...



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tooplyshy wrote on Apr 24
Sweet.

Anybody else lean in closer to the screen at about 4:10 or so?
drcurry wrote on Apr 24
Ingenious! Last mechanical calculator I used was the size of a compact typewriter. Oh, wait, you don't know what a typewriter is, do you?
subtractadddivide wrote on Apr 24, edited on Apr 24
Great find, James

I wonder what the other little black switch on the side does?


from the video/wiki
http://retrocalculators.com/default.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
phoenixlives wrote on Apr 24
Amazing. By a POW no less.
jinbish wrote on Apr 25
That's tremendous.
drcurry wrote on Apr 25
<Zorg> "I'll tell you what I do like though: a killer, a dyed-in-the-wool killer. Cold blooded, clean, methodical and thorough. Now a real killer, when he picked up the Curta, would've immediately asked about the little black switch on the side" </Zorg>
sallybrother wrote on Apr 25
Interesting-
They have posters..

http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm#Curta-Poste
phoenixlives wrote on Apr 27
drcurry said
Now a real killer, when he picked up the Curta, would've immediately asked about the little black switch on the side
Big badda boom.
subtractadddivide wrote on May 22, edited on May 22
http://www.curta.de/kr34/curta_simulator_en.htm

Via MeFi

{James, PLEASE PLEASE add a Curta tag to this post}
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