OM needs to buy this!

Actually we'll need at least a pair, but who wouldn't want this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=270146164488

Of course what I really want some day is one of these:

http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm


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Greg D. Moore (Strider) wrote:
Actually we'll need at least a pair, but who wouldn't want this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=270146164488


I note that it's from Italy; isn't that where the German code man was at
that set his machine's cypher wheels to one particular configuration and
left them there for the duration of the war?

Of course what I really want some day is one of these:

http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm


The Curta let you literally crank out numbers.
That is a truly odd machine, like something Babbage would come up with.
The cutaway is fascinating:
http://www.vcalc.net/images2/Master20s-860x562.jpg
With that ring sticking out of the top, it looks like a wind-up hand
grenade. :-)

Pat

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:07:17 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote:

Actually we'll need at least a pair, but who wouldn't want this.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=270146164488

....The link is invalid now, but I assume this is to that Enigma box? I
saw something about it on Boing Boing. I'm expecting Cory to post a
link to a steampunk version any day now.

OM
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