LINKS
Here you find interesting links about calculators
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General Information
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This site is made by calculator-collectors for collectors. There is information about almost evrey calculator. The site is not complete, every interested collector may join the team..
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A celebration of old calculators showing the evolution from mechanical calculator to pocket electronic calculator.
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Here you can find an on-line version of the Ernst Martin-book and a lot of beautiful pictures.
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This Circle is an informal group of collectors.
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A site of Andries de Man with original documents on the history of calculators.
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A French site from Valery Monnier about all of the 19th century
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A site with a lot of information about the stories of mechanical calculators. Particularly there is the virtual BLM's 2008 Brunsviga Expo
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Josep Balsach wrote a beautiful (Spanish) book DE LA MANO AL CÁLCULO ELECTRÓNICO (from the hand-typing to the electronic calculation).You can download (PDF) this book.
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French site of Christophe Mery with hundreds documents
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Private Collections
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A very extensive calculator-collection with many pictures. This site is made by W.G. Bluemich, Bonn, Germany.
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The site of an other collector from The Netherlands.
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Collection of Jantine Bloemhof, a Dutch collector. The collection consists of (electro)mechanical calculators to demonstrate to pupils in primary education the different ways of doing calculations before the advent of electronic calculators.
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A beautiful collection of Eduardo Guillem (Spain). Calculators and typewriters in museum-quality.
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Site of the Dutch collector Wim Hasselo. Many pictures and the history of brands as Burroughs and Astra.
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Site of the German collector Wilfried Denz. He has a collection of calculating devices and machines (non-printing working without electricity).
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Brands
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A German site with the history of Addiator and other German slide-adders like Addimult, Produx etc.This site is made by Friedrich Diestelkamp.
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Here you can find links to other Curta Calculator pages.
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This site tells us about the history of the Facit-company.
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Site of Martin Reese and Herbert Schneemann.
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The website of Kevin Odhner tells us about the Odhner history and shows us many very old pinwheelmachines from the Odhner-company.
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A French site about the old calculator Arithmometer from Thomas de Colmar. They show you almost all machines surviving the time.
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Museums
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The site of a beautiful museum especially made for mechanical calculators in Bonn (Germany). Every collector must visit this museum.
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Site of the university of Greifswald (Germany). They have a extensive collection of mechanical calculators.
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German website of the collection of the Hochschule in Ludwigsburg (Germany).
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Mailing Lists & Forums
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Mechanical Calculating Machines Discussion List. Here you can join the mailinglist and take a look in the archives.
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A forum for calculatorcollectors. You can read all mails and you can be member of the forum
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