Nice to see Bruggen was at the cutting edge of technology right up until the near end
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Nice to see Bruggen was at the cutting edge of technology right up until the near end
Ah- Brunsviga calculator. Never known to have a software crash or blue screen of death. It was still on the A level syllabus in 1969, although I have to confess never using one in anger.
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I used to have one of those. I threw it away because I couldn't get a battery for it.
2(AC) Sqn RIC at Laarbruch in the early 70s had the 7-strand light tables to go with the Phantom recce pod. Included with each table was the ultimate in high-tech computer power - a second-hand electronic calculator (LED display) bought from the Post Office to use with the coordinatograph on the top of the table to do micro-measurements from the film. Since the coordinatograph was awkward, caught on everything and was never used, it was generally removed. The calculator was shown to visitors as the wonder of the age. As there were no other electronic calculators on the station, the OC Accounts used to come to the RIC on Friday afternoons to use one of them to do all his account balancing - the alternative being the mechanical monster in Accounts.
I seem to remember that when I first arrived at Laarbruch in early 73, there was a "pocket" calculator (HP?) on sale that cost the best part of a month's salary. By the time I left Germany 3 years later, you could get a really basic pocket calculator free with 4 gallons of petrol!
I seem to remember that when I first arrived at Laarbruch in early 73, there was a "pocket" calculator (HP?) on sale that cost the best part of a month's salary. By the time I left Germany 3 years later, you could get a really basic pocket calculator free with 4 gallons of petrol!
Bizarre co incidence! Only yesterday afternoon my Wife & I saw one of these (or something very, very like it) in the window of an antiques shop in Budapest. Not that we really knew what is was, other than some kind of calculator.
The headmaster took a dim view of my presenting them to him down to the 10th decimal point!
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