🎥🛠️ Behold, a masterpiece of archaic ingenuity: a mechanical calculator that belongs in a museum alongside dinosaur bones. One can only marvel at the sheer dedication to reinventing the abacus while simultaneously ignoring the existence of, you know, actual computers. 🤦‍♂️💡
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0pJST5mL3A #mechanicalcalculator #archaicingenuity #innovation #museumworthy #technostalgia #HackerNews #ngated

I Built a Mechanical Calculator [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0pJST5mL3A

#HackerNews #MechanicalCalculator #Video #DIYProject #Innovation #TechGadgets #Engineering

Brilliant!!
#MechanicalCalculator

https://youtube.com/shorts/dKN6XatdVkY/

1989 An old-fashioned mechanical calculator on a table.

"A black and white photo of a vintage device, likely used for accounting or financial calculations.
The calculator has buttons with numbers, indicating its functionality for arithmetic operations.
It's placed on a textured surface, possibly paper or fabric, which adds a sense of age and nostalgia to the image."
Tags: mechanical calculator, vintage technology, accounting device, black-and-white photography

https://nocontext.loener.nl/fullpage/07-July1989-Page-011.png

#photography #illustration #madman #nocontext #sfw #mechanicalcalculator #vintagetechnology #accountingdevice #black-and-whitephotography

Opening a Curta — With Great Care https://hackaday.com/2023/08/12/opening-a-curta-with-great-care/ #mechanicalcalculator #handheldshacks #ToolHacks #Teardown #Curta

More on the #Curta #MechanicalCalculator:

"Math + The Mechanics" [2018], Tedium (https://tedium.co/2018/08/23/curta-calculator-history/).

"The Hand-Cranked Calculator Invented By A Nazi Concentration Camp Prisoner" [2021], Ars Technica (https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/the-remarkable-history-of-the-hand-cranked-curta-mechanical-calculator/).

#Calculator #Math #VintageCalculator #History

This is quite cool – treating a rotary #MechanicalCalculator (Curta Type II) as a #computer with an #AssemblyLanguage & then implementing #NumericalAlgorithms using that:

“3Hz Computer, Hold The Transistors”, Miguel Young de la Sota (https://mcyoung.xyz/2022/07/24/curta/).

#Calculator #Curta

As of a few weeks ago, I have held a #Curta pepper-mill #mechanicalCalculator in my hands. And heard it, and felt it, calculate. Marvellous! I don't suppose I'll ever own one.

Best way to compute Pi on such a machine??? (I don't mean 355/113!)

#retrocomputing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loI1Kwed8Pk