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Related: About this forumThe 3D-Printed Curta Calculator
Yeah, I know this isn't political; but.....dayum, this is cooollll!!!!
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)I like watching Adam Savage.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Thanks for posting it.
Turbineguy
(37,392 posts)Very Industrial Age!
mitch96
(13,940 posts)I assume he called it curta after his first name, Kurt. Then again in German Kurtz means short. This thing is a shorty.. My father called my grandmother Kurta.. aka shorty.. pronounced Koour-ta..
Neat stuff..
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longship
(40,416 posts)But I was a broke physics student. I opted for an HP-45 calculator. Later I owned an HP-65, an HP-67, an HP-41C, an HP-48, and an HP-49g+. The last one died. I traded up the rest of them to keep up with technology.
The best of the bunch? That's easy. The HP-41C. It was a marvelous machine.
Texas Instrument calculators were cheap imitations of Hewlett-Packard ones. Plus, HP used the far, far superior RPN logic.