Re: [Vo]: OFF TOPIC Calculator museum

2007-03-27 Thread Harry Veeder
A hand held mechanical calculator. (No, it is not a slide rule) http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm Perhaps mechanical calculators/computers will make a come back with nanoscale technology?! Harry Jed Rothwell wrote: This is fun, in a geeky kind of way:

[Vo]: OFF TOPIC Calculator museum

2007-03-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
This is fun, in a geeky kind of way: http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/calcs.html Here are great pictures of a Friden electro-mechanical calculator: http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/fridenstw.html And a video! The video shows the Friden multiplying and dividing 4 and 5 digit numbers,