On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 15:13, John T. Hoffoss wrote: > Speaking of old calculators, this month's Scientific American has a good > article on the Curta calculator, a pocket-sized, (salt-shaker-sized, > rather) mechanical (hand-crank!) calculator capable of +-/*^ and sqrt > (using some formulas in combination...) > > Very interesting, very cool, and apparently very rare. I think it can do > something like 15 digits of precision. It's really strange that you mentioned that. I have a friend who owns one of them. He inherited it. It's very cool. We can't figure out how to run it though, no instructions. Its full of pins, levers, buttons and knobs. Lots of moving parts. -- Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list