"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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I quite like films like "When Worlds Collide" and they cut to "the
computer" and show lots of whirling rods and cams. :-)


...... being operated by a mechanical Olivetti adding machine with the
handle ripped off, like in The Prisoner rerun, a day or two ago!

:-)

Well, I do still have a Brunsvega mechanical adding machine. At one time I
used to know how to do square roots on it, but I forgot this years ago!

Still have a slipstick as well.. ;-

**Me too. I have the finest one ever made. The mighty Faber Castel 2/83N. I
bought for a song, from a guy who purchased a calculator. I've been trying
to teach my partner how to use it. She grew up in a time without slide
rules. Seven years after me, they were all gone.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au