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Calculators
Mechanical & electronic calculators from my own collection and beyond — from stylus adders and the Hamann Manus to the Curta and the first electronic calculators with CRT displays.
7 of 7 topics live so far.
Photo: Curta Calculator, 1950-1960s, Computer History Museum by The wub · CC BY-SA 4.0
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How to search
sten gun- pages with both words
"sten gun"- the words together, as a phrase
sten OR sterling- either one (
|works too) sten -replica- leave out pages that mention “replica”
Without quotes, the last word also matches longer words that start with it (sten finds Stenophylla), and close word forms count (rifle finds rifles). Tick Exact words to match whole words only.
Whole deep dives are listed first, then the pages inside them.
Mechanical
Mechanical calculators and instruments
Gears, pinwheels, switching latches and stylus dials, and the instruments that calculate with wheels and arms.
Electronic
Electronic calculators
Organised by display technology: CRT, Nixie and vacuum-fluorescent machines, with the Soviet calculators as a field of their own.
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