Mechanical calculators (was: Re: *updating* 8088's)

[Chuck Guzis]

On 3 Dec 2007 at 1:46, M H Stein wrote:

> (Chuck: change the colour, remove the cabinet on the left and put it on tubular legs
> and you've got the picture you're looking for - remove the alpha keyboard for one
> of the older numeric-only models ;-)

How about the National Class 3000 from 1929? One can be seen on the 
page numbered 140 in this very interesting document from Portugal:

http://www3.dsi.uminho.pt/memtsi/docs/guia_exposicao_ilustrado.pdf

Cheers,
Chuck