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Re: Old Calculator Web Museum

Newsgroups comp.misc
From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Subject Re: Old Calculator Web Museum
References <4VY6iPzfM7hFl0SIb9HlBOcb@dont-email.me>
Message-ID <q0f9fe-gmu.ln1@raspberry.therandymon.com> (permalink)
Organization blocknews - www.blocknews.net
Date 2017-12-02 02:16 +0000

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On 2017-12-01, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
><URL:http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/>
>
> Quoting from the URL above:
>
>    The museum pages aren't fancy, focusing on content rather than flare.
>    This museum is simply devoted to preserving, documenting, and sharing
>    the technology of desktop automatic calculating machines -- from the
>    electro-mechanical calculators of the 1950's and '60's, through the
>    beginnings of the pocket wonders we have today, which had their roots in
>    the early 1970's, and on into the beginnings of the desktop computer of
>    the mid-1970's through the early 1980's.

Nice!  This is the kind of stuff I liked the best when I first got connected
to the 'Net: interesting individuals and their personal passions, catalogs
of the esoteric, and exposure to all sorts of interesting things I'd never
have found - or learned about - otherwise.

This new corporate www is boring by comparison.

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Old Calculator Web Museum Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-01 21:56 +0000
  Re: Old Calculator Web Museum The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2017-12-01 14:31 -0800
  Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2017-12-02 10:21 +1100
  Re: Old Calculator Web Museum RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2017-12-02 02:16 +0000
    Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-02 03:14 +0000
      Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-12-02 09:59 +0100
        Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2017-12-03 23:51 +0000
          Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-04 00:26 +0000
            Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-12-06 06:22 +0100
              Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-06 11:17 +0000
          Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-12-06 06:32 +0100
  Re: Old Calculator Web Museum Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2017-12-02 10:50 +0000
  Re: Old Calculator Web Museum philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2017-12-14 18:41 -0600

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