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The
International Association of
Calculator Collectors. publishes a quarterly newsletter with information of interest
for collectors of mechanical or electronic calculators. The membership fee cost US$16 per
year (US$20 outside the USA). For more information visit its Web site or send an email to Guy Ball. |
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Another site of interest is the IFHB Internationales Forum Historische Bürowelt e. V. - a society of mostly German collectors of old calculators and typewriters. | |
To get in touch with other collectors subscribe yourself to the Mechanical Calculators Mailing List maintained by Erez Kaplan. To send commands (not messages to the subscribers) use the following address: LISTSERV@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL. Commands must be included in the message body, not in the subject field. The main commands are:
Once subscribed, send messages to all subscribers by using this email address: CALCLIST-L@TECHUNIX.TECHNION.AC.IL To access the list archives use the following address: |
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If you also collect electronical
calculators, subscribe yourself to the Automatic Calculator Email List located in http://www.egroups.com under the groiup name
"oldcalcs" Once subscribed, you can send messages to all subscribers
by using this email address: oldcalcs@egroups.com. |
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Another
option is to post your messages in the "Vintage
Calculators & Slide Rules Forum" at this site. |
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Rick Furr's
CURTA
Calculator Page is indeed the absolute reference for Curta related information. A
great place to visit! For help with Curta repairs contact: Jack
Christensen |
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For a comprehensive listing of mechanical calculators, visit Michel Bardel's site. It is great reference site with a tentative list of all existing mechanical machines since 1851! | |
Also, you may want to visit the Forum for Antique Scientific Instruments hosted by "The Gemmary." It usually have posts related to mechanical calculators. |
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Need "springhooks" for your old Burroughs calculator? Michael Hancock can help with that. |
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Thanks to a collector from Moncks Corner, SC who wants to
remain anonymous, Ernie Jorgenson have a few
Burroughs keys. These keys are used to remove the covers from the following machines. BR6. Fits the Glass Sided Burroughs as the Flat Bed Adder. Price: $8.00 BR7. Fits the Burroughs Key Drive 'Comptometer Type' Calculator. Price: $8.00 Please adding $1.50 for Handling and Postage. |
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Dick Rose is a dealer of mechanical calculators and slide rules. His inventory of slide rules is very impressive. Click here to review his products. |
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For repair, service and remarketing of your old office equipment you may contact Neal McChristy at RS&R - Yesterday's Office. |
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If you want to sell, buy or trade a calculator, post your ad or review the ads in the sites listed on the "Classifieds" section of this site. |
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If you are a former Friden employee or are interested in the
history of Friden, you want to visit Frank
Rauck's Friden Web Page. |
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Click here
for Ernie Jorgenson's Catalog of Manuals for Mechanical and Electro-mechanical
Calculators. |
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Ray MacKay can
provide a CD-ROM with 500 MB of info about MADAS and Comptometers. The information
includes manuals in PDF format and pictures in JPG and GIF format. Click here for details. |
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Yesterday's Office is a place where you can find information on repairing old mechanical office equipment. This is service provided by Neal McChristy as part of his "Repair, Service & Remarketing, RS&R" web site. | |
If you would like to wear a quality heavy cotton CURTA T-shirt, grey or white w/blue-black printing, contact Vic Kulikauskas $19.95 + $4 shipping |
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Start your search in The Google Page of Calculators. |
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We try to collect information about all mechanical
devices. With contribution of all collectors all over the world. At the
moment more or less in German only, but hopefully a lot of English speaking
collectors join ReLex soon. Will you? |
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If you need to calculate the price of car insurance,
you can use a car insurance calculator at
www.carinsurancecalculatoronline.com. It lets you compare the prices of
different companies. |