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

Tags: curta

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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>