This page provides with
information about some important resources useful for collectors of mechanical
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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:
- SUBSCRIBE CALCLIST-L (to subscribe to the list).
- UNSUBSCRIBE CALCLIST-L (to unsubscribe from the list).
- SET CALCLIST-L ACK NOREPRO (to send a short
acknowledgement).
- SET CALCLIST-L NOACK NOREPRO (to disable acknowledgments).
- INDEX CALCLIST-L (to get an index of previous messages).
- GET CALCLIST-L LOGxxxx (to get a copy of a previous
message).
- INFO REFCARD (to get additional info on available commands)
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:
http://tx.technion.ac.il/archives/calclist-l.html
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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
chronos@northshore.net
Timewise
32 Old Barn Road
Hawthorn Woods, IL 60047
(847) 550-5052
http://home.attbi.com/~timewise1/
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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. |
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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ReLex

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?
As a offer to all is the list (and partly content) of a very large number of
patents. Please try it!
If you know more patents, please inform us, we'll add them.
See you in ReLex!
Friedrich Diestelkamp
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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.
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