Or it would be if I was doing it on a Curta Mechanical Calculator.
(Damned newfangled electronic calculators have no personality.)
Summary description of the Curta from Dark Roasted Blend:
* Entirely mechanical, no electricity or batteries involved.
* Designed by Curt Herzstark in 1938 and perfected inside a concentration camp.
* Considered to be the most efficient portable calculator (until electronic calculators came in the 70s)
* Simply a thing of beauty, stunning piece of engineering art.
Click the link for more backstory, or watch the Curta do its thing (brace yourself for enthusiastic voiceover action):
I want it I want it I want it. The end.
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two comments
I like that Curt named his invention the Curta. I am going to invent something fantastic and call it the Theaish.
Posted by Thea
September 9, 2008, 5:54 PM
That's pretty cool. :D
Posted by Restructure!
September 9, 2008, 10:59 PM
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