The 3D-Printed Curta Calculator

[LongTomH]

Yeah, I know this isn't political; but.....dayum, this is cooollll!!!!

[apkhgp]

1. Right...Cool

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[Dr Hobbitstein]

2. As a hobbyist "engineer", I really enjoyed this!

Thanks for posting it.

[Turbineguy]

3. They are terrific machines.

Very Industrial Age!

[mitch96]

4. This is way cool....

I assume he called it curta after his first name, Kurt. Then again in German Kurtz means short. This thing is a shorty.. My father called my grandmother Kurta.. aka shorty.. pronounced Koour-ta..
Neat stuff..
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[longship]

5. I so wanted one of these.

But I was a broke physics student. I opted for an HP-45 calculator. Later I owned an HP-65, an HP-67, an HP-41C, an HP-48, and an HP-49g+. The last one died. I traded up the rest of them to keep up with technology.

The best of the bunch? That's easy. The HP-41C. It was a marvelous machine.

Texas Instrument calculators were cheap imitations of Hewlett-Packard ones. Plus, HP used the far, far superior RPN logic.