Old calculators

[mmcirvin]

Lest you think I only admire those old machines for their beauty, here's a link again to the Old Calculator Museum, which I mentioned some time ago. Most of these old calculators are astonishingly ugly devices, made at a low point in the history of industrial design, but I love them anyway, probably because they remind me of my childhood.

(The ahead-of-its-time Friden EC-130 had a sort of buttoned-down, mid-C20-technocratic beauty to it, though.)

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[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Post, too. Somewhere on my bookshelf at work I have an incredibly patronizing manual for the DECmate (even your secretary can use it!), which I meant to scan some pieces of but never got around to.