Just listed a huge collection of vintage calculators for sale.

calculator-mad

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May 5, 2013, 7:53:22 AM5/5/13

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http://uk.ebid.net/items/calculator_mad

Jules Richardson

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May 5, 2013, 9:37:30 AM5/5/13

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On Sun, 05 May 2013 04:53:22 -0700, calculator-mad wrote:

> http://uk.ebid.net/items/calculator_mad

Not enough Nixies for me! :-)

Folderol

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May 5, 2013, 12:54:09 PM5/5/13

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Hmmm
{pulls out his still working Casio fx-31}

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Andy Champ

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May 5, 2013, 3:06:04 PM5/5/13

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On 05/05/2013 12:53, calculator-mad wrote:
> http://uk.ebid.net/items/calculator_mad
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They're electronic. That's not vintage.

ps it's a Steering wheel, not a Stearing wheel.

Andy

Jules Richardson

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May 6, 2013, 8:52:48 AM5/6/13

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On Sun, 05 May 2013 20:06:04 +0100, Andy Champ wrote:

> On 05/05/2013 12:53, calculator-mad wrote:
>> http://uk.ebid.net/items/calculator_mad
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> They're electronic. That's not vintage.

:-) I've got a Burroughs mechanical adding machine from 1906 sitting not
too far away from me, awaiting a bit of TLC (very similar to this one,
although mine is a little earlier and lacks the top row of keys, and the
side-desk is a bit larger: http://www.fi.edu/learn/sci-tech/adding-
machine/adding-machine_1.jpg)

When it comes to calcs, it's mostly about the displays for me; I like the
blue-green VF displays found on many 80's-era desktop calcs, and those
bubble-window 7-seg red LED displays on many of the 70's handhelds (and
Nixies, of course). I've got no interest in LCD displays, though - but
maybe that'll change 20 years down the line!

Did anyone ever make an electronic calculator with a Panaplex display? I
don't think I've ever seen one, but they were common on things like
petrol pumps at one point. Maybe the early LED displays were just better
suited to a calculator environment.

cheers

Jules

Andy Burns

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May 6, 2013, 9:30:21 AM5/6/13

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Jules Richardson wrote:

> Did anyone ever make an electronic calculator with a Panaplex display?

The owner of this page seems to think they were.

http://imajeenyus.com/vacuum/20101115_second_panaplex/index.shtml

Andy Champ

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May 6, 2013, 2:55:57 PM5/6/13

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On 06/05/2013 13:52, Jules Richardson wrote:
> I've got a Burroughs mechanical adding machine from 1906 sitting not
> too far away from me

I don't think I'll ever stop regretting not getting one of the recently
obsolete mechanical calculators from Uni. There were rows of them, just
sitting on top of the cupboards in the undergraduate labs...

Andy

Mike Coon

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May 6, 2013, 4:28:40 PM5/6/13

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I've recently posted a review of a book about Atanasoff on web site
GoodReads in which I complain that the author, who is a novelist and not a
technologist, confuses analogue vs digital with mechanical vs electronic,
and hence refers to Babbage's analogue machines and desktop analogue
calculators...

Mike.
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Little Paul

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May 7, 2013, 5:00:52 AM5/7/13

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On 2013-05-06, Jules Richardson <julesrichar...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Did anyone ever make an electronic calculator with a Panaplex display?

According to http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/calculator_displays.html
the Compucorp 324G and Keystone 88 were both panaplex displays.

Plenty of other exotic display tech listed on that site too.

-Paul
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