Curta Calculator

[curtacalc]

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I've become enamored by the Curta calculator and started tweeting interesting things about it and pieces of it's history as I come across them:

http://www.twitter.com/curtacalculator

Does anybody have one of these, and if so, would you be interested in sharing any info? Just looking for more thoughts/opinions/stories from people who have Curtas. Where you got it, do you know anybody who used them back in the day, have you ever taken it apart? That kinda stuff.

 

[jmw]

I remember using these many years ago but can't remember too much about it now.
Great fun and pretty rugged.


JMW

http://www.ViscoAnalyser.com

 

[oldfieldguy]

I just looked on eBay. they're pricey.

old field guy

 

[MintJulep]

Curta calculators used to be very popular among the Time-Speed-Distance road rally crowd.

Set you factor on the rings and give it a crank every tenth or a mile and the correct time for each increment of distance is the result.

I used to want one, but due to the prices never got one.