Calculator is in excellent shape. Includes the following original items, matching box with matching serial number, hard case, guarantee card, computing examples, Curta brochure and your Curta calculator booklet. All in excellent shape. $800 plus shipping.
That's way below market value, 50% at least.
800 $ is what I paid for my Type I I about 10 years ago. That is a deal for yours today, if I didn't already own one I would go for yours. Good luck with your sale I don't think it will take long to sell.
Awesome! I wish I could afford that.
Years ago (many lifetimes, about 45 or so), my brother's best friend's father found two Curtas for sale at a yard sale. I believe he got them for $5 each, gave one to my brother, the other to his son.
My brother still has his, won't part with it. I begged and pleaded (exaggeration, I told him to give it to me). I wanted to sell it and get a cut.
Retired PLS, post: 357922, member: 6573 wrote: Calculator is in excellent shape. Includes the following original items, matching box with matching serial number, hard case, guarantee card, computing examples, Curta brochure and your Curta calculator booklet. All in excellent shape. $800 plus shipping.
The Curta is still available.
agreed, good price. http://www.ebay.com/bhp/curta-calculator
I wish I could afford it.
and I wish I had kept mine
Retired PLS, post: 357922, member: 6573 wrote: Calculator is in excellent shape. Includes the following original items, matching box with matching serial number, hard case, guarantee card, computing examples, Curta brochure and your Curta calculator booklet. All in excellent shape. $800 plus shipping.
SOLD
I'm not old enough to remember those....;-)
paden cash, post: 370831, member: 20 wrote: I'm not old enough to remember those....;-)
Neither am I (I am pretty sure I'm younger than you). But I have seen one of these in a museum near me. And if I asked, I could probably see my brother's. He might be scared to let me handle since I might try to abscond with it and sell it 😛
Back in the early 1980's I worked on a crew with a 60-year-old Crew Chief (now I'm 61). I had an hp41CV and he had an older HP16 I believe. Anyway, one day his hp batteries ran down and his calculator didn't work. I offered to let him use my 41. He said, no, that he couldn't work those fancy programmable things. I tried to tell him that the sin and cosine buttons and all the other buttons on the machine worked just like they do on his hp, but to no avail.
The old guy reached in the little desk-box and pulled out his curta and a sin-table booklet, and started to run his traverse on that. At some other point I told him that if he ever wanted to sell it, to let me know. Later in the '80s he retired. They had a big event at the office and presented him with a 300' steel tape on a reel and a brand new Curta in the box.
A few years after he had retired he called me up and said that he had a new curta and that I could have his old one if I wanted. I told him that they were worth quite a bit, but he said not to worry about it. I still have that old curta on my desk. (type 1). It isn't some fancy thing with the original box or other great things, but it's pretty cool.
Glad it sold. Quite a deal.
(p.s. I'm pretty sure Paden's old enough.....as a guy older than me I think, who had a dad as a surveyor, and as the winky-smile might indicate. Not positive about any of the above though)
I've never handled a Curta, but I remember the ads in Scientific American back in the '60's. I think I'm a year and a half older than Paden.
Another guy and I in college would sneak into a physics lab without permission to play with the HP9100, which was a desktop scientific calculator with a 5 (?) inch CRT for graphing, and a mag card reader for programs and data. At the time, it sold for the price of a basic Chevy sedan. I first saw a scientific pocket calculator late in my senior year of college in '72, but didn't own one for another few years.
