[TriLUG] Computer sale at tonight's meeting

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Thu Sep 8 23:27:50 EDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 23:18, Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On 9/8/05, Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sep 8, 2005, at 1:53 PM, Randall Barlow wrote:
> > 
> > > Mark Turner wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> P.S. Curta calulators: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta_calculator
> > >>
> > >
> > > Here is a cool link that is a flash demo of the Curta:
> > >
> > > http://www.vcalc.net/curta_simulator_en.htm
> > 
> > The Curta plays a small role in William Gibson's "Pattern
> > Recognition". Kinda shot up on eBay after the book was published.
> 
> And it took NO role in Bob's talk tonight.
> 
> I remember Curtas from when they were the hot ticket for  TSD rally
> navigators who ran in equipped.

Original price of the version 1 Curta ~$125. Now selling on Ebay for
over $2000.




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