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I'm sure they would not have been less than £850 in whatever currency it was sold in back then, inflation adjusted. But the justification was much better than
by MatthiasWandel 2y ago
I'm sure they would not have been less than £850 in whatever currency it was sold in back then, inflation adjusted. But the justification was much better than being a fidget toy.
- tombert 2y agoOh definitely, prior to having cheap computers that can compute gigaflops, I would definitely have bought one to do number crunching. The problem is that if I bought one now, it would simply be a toy and nothing else. That's just a bit more than I'm willing to spend.
- econ 2y agoUpdate it with USB so that it can take input and return results. Hook it up to a cash register for something like an antique store. Ideally one selling small items so that the customer can marvel at the display adding things up.
- tombert 2y agoI also have always wanted one of those mechanical vintage cash registers, for the same reason I have always wanted a Curta. They always seemed like they would be fun to play with. I could probably get one of those cash registers to play with for not a ton of money, but my house isn't huge and it's hard to justify the space.