Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong

[Charles Geilfuss]

  Then there is the granddaddy of them all:

              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

  Clever those ancient Greeks.

Charlie

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Aug 28, 2012 6:37 AM
>>To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong
>>
>>  Just to extend this OT discussion a bit further, who remembers this
>>clever little device:
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>>       http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm
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>>  I remember drooling over the ads for this thing in Scientific
>> American back in the late 60's. I was tempted a few times but $125 was
>> a *lot* of money.
>>
>
>      And then there's Thacher’s Calculating Machine:
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>      http://www.flickr.com/photos/thayerschool/3272197754/
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>      I first saw one of these in a display case at the Lowell Observatory in 
> Flagstaff.  It just so happens that it was there that Neil Armstrong made his 
> last public appearance at the dedication for a new observatory built by the 
> Discovery Channel.
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>      And then there was this mechanical wonder from the early 1960's:
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>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
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>      I had one of these.  It tended to get stuck when you operated the 
> slides, but it was still pretyy neat.
>
> Chris
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