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Thursday, September 27, 2012

More Old Calculators

I had one of these as a kid:





And later one of these. It was a pain in the ass to use but I still liked it, mainly because it reminded me of the incredible edible wonderousness that was the Marathon bar.





I did not, however, own one of these awesome antiquarian adding machines...



...though some of our more elderly seasoned contributors such as Fundy and Curmudgeon may very well have used such a device in their youth.

More here.



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posted by Jar(egg)head at 14:15

2 Comments:

Blogger The Mad Builder of Periwinkle said...

Glad to see the article mentioned the Curta. Was always fascinated by that particular device and it's story.

19:11  
Blogger curmudgeon said...

I am not that old. However, I did learn how to use one of these:
http://www.hpmuseum.org/powerlog.jpg

07:45  

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