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They are beautiful, aren't they?
by lasermike026 9y ago
They are beautiful, aren't they?
- jacquesm 9y agoThe fully mechanical ones are amazing machines, algorithms frozen in gears and levers.
- lostlogin 9y agoThe Curta is awesome. Styled as some sort of combination of hand grenade and camera lens. For “maths on the run.” http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/curta2.html http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/curta2.html Edit: check out its case and the tear down, it’s so great. At the end is the ‘Iron Felix’, a Stalin era arithmometer, which is a bit less compact. http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/stunningly-intricate-curta-mechanical.html?m=1 http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/stunningly-intricate...
- flavio81 9y agoYet there is also the Friden electronic, fully electronic but simply amazing for it's time (1965?): It had CRT vector display of numbers ... For 1965 on a table-top model! And memory was realized via a mechanic delay line, where the bits traveled around a loop, mechanically!
- jacquesm 9y agoI just spent an hour reading that same entry, absolutely amazing tech for the time and that they got that to work reliably enough for a mass market product is really amazing engineering.