I was introduced to the Curta in my early teens by one of my
photography mentors. I will have to cudgel my brain to get his name
right, he had been a screen writer. He used the Curta because he had
some problem with doing math in his head or on a normal slide rule. The
story I was told does not quite make sense now. I always wanted a Curta,
just to have one. They look like a piece off of a Norden bombsight.
On 7/17/2017 2:42 PM, Jean-David Beyer wrote:
I also have my Curta (Type II) calculator: sort-of like the odometer of
a car redesigned by a mad-man. He was not really mad, but a marvelous
mechanical designer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
