for retro freaks

[keithr0]

https://www.amazon.com/Animated-Software-Co-Digital-Slide/dp/B01G2HAU6I/

 

[Trevor Wilson]

On 14/07/2017 3:21 PM, keithr0 wrote:
> https://www.amazon.com/Animated-Software-Co-Digital-Slide/dp/B01G2HAU6I/

**Sweet! I just located my Faber Castel 2/83N to show my partner. I
wanted to teach her how to use it. She is too young to have ever used
one. I retired my 2/83N, in favour of an Emona scientific calculator.
Cost me the grand sum of $104.00 way back when. It was more than a
weeks' wages.

--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au

 

[Phil Allison]

Trevor Wilson wrote:

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On 14/07/2017 3:21 PM, keithr0 wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Animated-Software-Co-Digital-Slide/dp/B01G2HAU6I/

**Sweet! I just located my Faber Castel 2/83N to show my partner. I
wanted to teach her how to use it. She is too young to have ever used
one. I retired my 2/83N, in favour of an Emona scientific calculator.
Cost me the grand sum of $104.00 way back when. It was more than a
weeks' wages.

** I still have my Faber Castell "1/98 ELEKTRO" slide rule from my uni days - I've forgotten how it works.

PLUS I also bought an Emona Scientific in c1975 too. The one with tiny but magnified red LED displays, internal NiCd cells and a charger. The NiCds leaked and killed the Emona eventually but I still have the charger.


..... Phil


..... Phil

 

[Trevor Wilson]

On 14/07/2017 5:08 PM, Phil Allison wrote:

Trevor Wilson wrote:

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On 14/07/2017 3:21 PM, keithr0 wrote:
https://www.amazon.com/Animated-Software-Co-Digital-Slide/dp/B01G2HAU6I/

**Sweet! I just located my Faber Castel 2/83N to show my partner. I
wanted to teach her how to use it. She is too young to have ever used
one. I retired my 2/83N, in favour of an Emona scientific calculator.
Cost me the grand sum of $104.00 way back when. It was more than a
weeks' wages.


** I still have my Faber Castell "1/98 ELEKTRO" slide rule from my uni days - I've forgotten how it works.

PLUS I also bought an Emona Scientific in c1975 too. The one with tiny but magnified red LED displays, internal NiCd cells and a charger. The NiCds leaked and killed the Emona eventually but I still have the charger.

**You know, I think I still have my charger, emblazoned with EMONA, in
big white letters. I think there was a fancy logo, somewhat like a
European royal family crest? Dunno where the calculator is.


--
Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au

 

[Phil Allison]

Trevor Wilson wrote:

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**Sweet! I just located my Faber Castel 2/83N to show my partner. I
wanted to teach her how to use it. She is too young to have ever used
one. I retired my 2/83N, in favour of an Emona scientific calculator.
Cost me the grand sum of $104.00 way back when. It was more than a
weeks' wages.


** I still have my Faber Castell "1/98 ELEKTRO" slide rule from my uni days - I've forgotten how it works.

PLUS I also bought an Emona Scientific in c1975 too. The one with tiny but magnified red LED displays, internal NiCd cells and a charger. The NiCds leaked and killed the Emona eventually but I still have the charger.


**You know, I think I still have my charger, emblazoned with EMONA, in
big white letters. I think there was a fancy logo, somewhat like a
European royal family crest? Dunno where the calculator is.

** Yep - the crest shows a castle with a moat and a flying horse passing over the top with a jockey with his whip held high.

" Calculator Adaptor Model 12 "

Manufactured in Sydney by "Hallam Magnetics".

" Output 9V DC at 150 ma "

Totally sealed, waterproof and likely potted to boot.

Only 42 years old.



..... Phil