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the curta calculator (and all its parts)

a dense poster diagraming the components of the curta mechanical calculator, a hand-sized cylindrical device with a crank on top. the diagram shows the numerical selector switches along the side, the pins and other moving components within the device, as well as explanatory text (too voluminous to transcribe here at the moment)
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a dense poster diagraming the components of the curta mechanical calculator, a hand-sized cylindrical device with a crank on top. the diagram shows the numerical selector switches along the side, the pins and other moving components within the device, as well as explanatory text (too voluminous to transcribe here at the moment)
someone/something here sent me down a rabbithole that led to learning about the curta, a hand-sized crank-operated mechanical calculator designed by curt herzstark

image source, with tons of resources about the curta:
https://www.vcalc.net
they also sell a poster:
https://www.vcalc.net/poster...
some additional info:
https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en...
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bezt pro 5 hours ago
Saved to https://mltshp.com/volvelle
snarkout pro 5 hours ago
It shows up in one of Gibson's Blue Ant trilogy, maybe Spook Country. (I just looked it up, and it's the first one, Pattern Recognition.) I initially thought it was invented for the purpose of the book.
scruss pro 3 hours ago
@snarkout After reading Ifrah's Natural History of Numbers, I was in the process of costing one of these out on ebay. Then Gibson's book dropped, and they all moved well out of affordability. Dammit!

I have got to play with one once. Imagine if a Leica could do sums ...
poorusher 3 hours ago
Pretty sure @scruss put me on to this year's ago

https://youtu.be/qyrY6uss...
scruss pro an hour ago
@poorusher I may have pointed you to the pleasantly eccentric Chris Staecker, but I don't remember this particular vid.
poorusher 59 minutes ago
Could have been @ardgedee, I was asking about recs for maths adjacent videos via Mastodon.

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