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Re: Hint on cheap calculators
« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2019, 01:45:34 PM »
My parents threw my slide rule away after I joined the Marines.  Dang it.
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Re: Hint on cheap calculators
« Reply #26 on: January 03, 2019, 01:50:16 PM »
Quote from: Mike Irwin on January 02, 2019, 09:56:50 AM
That was most like a Curta mechanical calculator.

They were QUITE advanced, and have something of a cult following now. They also tend to bring quite high prices -- asking prices on various internet sites are well north of $1K depending on the model.

I have my Father's Curta. Not sure where my Grandfather's Curta got to.

Neat rundown on how they came to be... the originator was a "guest" of the Nazis during WW II.

https://newatlas.com/curta-death-camp-calculator/45506/

Your post got me digging, and I found most of it. Looks like one of my girls took it apart a few years back.

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Re: Hint on cheap calculators
« Reply #27 on: January 03, 2019, 03:42:21 PM »
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Your post got me digging, and I found most of it. Looks like one of my girls took it apart a few years back.

Standing joke between me and the two boys (now men) when something turned up disassembled:  "I don't know, Pop.  I was just looking at it and it fell apart."
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