Mechanical calculators

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:33 am

I have these:

http://members.soundclick.com/shareImg/76292

http://members.soundclick.com/shareImg/76862

http://members.soundclick.com/shareImg/76861

damnstraight · Post by **damnstraight** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:22 pm

Boray, you have the best photos!

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Fri May 11, 2007 5:01 am

I googled a litte and that big calculating machine apparently is from the 1920's. Cool!

Victragic · Post by **Victragic** » Fri May 11, 2007 6:02 am

'The Addiator'.. what a cool name!

We who are about to divide salute you!

-G

Doppleganger · Post by **Doppleganger** » Fri May 11, 2007 6:55 am

Stuff like that makes me wish I woulda grabbed the old wind-up cash registers from the deli that I used to frequent when I was a kid.

They replaced them with electronic ones.

Bummer.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:35 am

How about this one?

http://www.curta.de/kr34/curta_simulator.htm

Post by **Jeff-20** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:41 am

I want that one.

PaulQ · Post by **PaulQ** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:12 am

Mike, that looks like it'd be more at home mounted on my fishing rod.

gklinger · Post by **gklinger** » Wed May 23, 2007 2:55 pm

DigitalQuirk wrote:Mike, that looks like it'd be more at home mounted on my fishing rod.

My thought exactly. I had to examine the picture more closely to convince myself that it wasn't a piece of fishing apparatus or a camera lens. It is such an interesting and aesthetically pleasing design. I would love to have one on my coffee table as a conversation piece and since it is a calculator, it might prove handy from time to time.

Victragic · Post by **Victragic** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:10 pm

I read that IBM infamously supplied mechanical computing devices to Germany before or during the second world war.

while I specifically do *NOT* want to see one of those, I'd be interested to see an equivalent machine that IBM was supplying at the time.

I'm guessing it was like a modified typewriter, that was designed to fit a standardised form, and had number counters that automatically clicked over. It may have had some 'adders' included as well..

I'm sure some US government departments used them??

-G

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 4:42 pm

Hey, I have a Commodore mechanical adding machine!

CommVEx v3 info at http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex
or http://www.commodore.ca/forum
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:16 am

RobertBe wrote:Hey, I have a Commodore mechanical adding machine!

Cool! Do you have any pictures of it?

RobertBe · Post by **RobertBe** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:16 pm

Boray wrote:Cool! Do you have any pictures of it?

No, I've never photographed it and posted such a photo to the Net. Hmm, maybe I should bring it to CommVEx where it would be photographed.

CommVEx v3 info at http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex
or http://www.commodore.ca/forum
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug

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