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I have some bad news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
by Kye 2y ago
I have some bad news: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
- gaetgu 2y agoThis is one of those things that I would really love to have ten of, but I can’t even afford one. I guess I’ll stick to my normal straight slide rules for now.
- Mochsner 2y agohttps://www.instructables.com/Build-a-3D-Printed-Curta-Calculator/ https://www.instructables.com/Build-a-3D-Printed-Curta-Calcu...
- pavlov 2y agoWhat an origin story: ”While I was imprisoned inside Buchenwald I had, after a few days, told the [people] in the work production scheduling department of my ideas. The head of the department, Mr. Munich said, 'See, Herzstark, I understand you've been working on a new thing, a small calculating machine. Do you know, I can give you a tip. We will allow you to make and draw everything. If it is really worth something, then we will give it to the Führer as a present after we win the war. Then, surely, you will be made an Aryan.' For me, that was the first time I thought to myself, my God, if you do this, you can extend your life. And then and there I started to draw the CURTA, the way I had imagined it.” It’s revealing that a Nazi camp manager in 1943 would dangle the carrot that someone could be “made Aryan.” Shows that the leaders didn’t actually believe the race bullshit.