http://www.vcalc.net/images2/Ad-AllPurpose-234x500.jpg
A little gadget about the size of a film camera lens, that could be used to perform mathematical calculations, IE a mechanical pocket calculator!
http://www.vcalc.net/cu-art.htm#Amazing
http://www.hpmuseum.org/ffcurta.htm
Seemingly its inventor dreamed up the idea while imprisoned in buchenwald concentration camp.
Flash simulator is here:
http://www.vcalc.net/curta_simulator_en.htm
What a fascinating little machine.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 6 January 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Saturday, 6 January 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 6 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)
to elaborate: they feature heavily in Gibson's 'Pattern Recognition' (which is well worth reading).
― My Koogy Weighs A Ton (koogs), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)
*bans self*
― StanM (StanM), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)
Youtube clip of the little gadget in action:
― The Plastic Fork (Pashmina), Monday, 3 November 2008 15:26 (seventeen years ago)
i almost understood that!
― ROBIN TROUSERS (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 3 November 2008 17:12 (seventeen years ago)