pre-Curta, the Arithmometer

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Arithmometer Odhner-Hill

The mechanical calculator made in Odhner and Hill factory in St.-Petersburg (Russia) The first such device was made in 1931 and provided the Soviet bureaucracy and terror machine with much needed ways to account for things, including facilitating GULAG operations. Thus, they earned the right to be called “The Iron Felix” – haunted and heavy mechanisms:


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    RSIxidor

    Calculators are cool, ya’ll.

    Can someone make one of these to go on my wrist?

    tiki god

    so wait a second here.

    they used calculators to increase their torture/kill ratios?

    Tiggle Bitties

    it’s a shame modern calculators don’t have handles.

    you can’t CRANK DAT any more

    Queensly

    Numbers yo, numbers

    conan776

    [x] Made of Iron
    [x] Has “Felix” (“фелікс”) stamped on front
    [x] right to be called Iron Felix
    [ ] earned right to be called Iron Felix

    atkinson

    Thanks, mld!
    Atk

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