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   From: ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com   
      
   In article , "Tom Lake"   
    wrote:   
   >"James"  wrote in message   
   >news:11q19rd5fftsqd2@corp.supernews.com...   
   >> Better than calculators with no need for batteries or sunlight would be   
   >> the Kurta calculating machine for airborne use.  I believe there were two   
   >> models with the smaller one being about the size of a medium sized salt   
   >> and pepper shaker.  Numbers were on the top side around the circumference   
   >> with the entry sliders below them and a small crank on top like a pepper   
   >> grinder.  I almost bought one surplus in the early 60's. What a collectors   
   >> item it would be today.   
   >   
   >It sure is!  They go for $1500 and up on eBay.   
      
   Pommie mate of mine used something like that back in the 60s.  He   
   called it his "CD calculator". :-)   
      
   [ But I suspect it may have been more like a cylindrical slide rule   
   than this Kurta gizmo you're talking about.  Can't say I took all that   
   much notice of it at the time -- I shared a full-keyboard Monroematic   
   electric calculator at the time, much more advanced. :) ]   
      
   Cheers, Phred.   
      
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