Facit 9911 2.5" floppy drive

Philip Belben philip at axeside.co.uk
Sun Feb 10 15:06:27 CST 2008


>> The only Facit equipment I've encountered is VT52 terminals (still got a=20
>> keyboard) and typewriters.
> 
> Facit was very well-known for paper tape equipment. The 4070 punch was 
> used (and badged) by just about every computer company at one time or 
> another, but Facit made other punches and readers.

Not to forget the rather nice motorised mechanical calculator sitting on 
the desk beside my PC at the moment!

Facit made some nice calculators, both motorised and hand-wound, with a 
characteristic keyboard on two rows of 5 keys:

  2 4 5 7 9
1 3 0 6 8

The digits were mechanically shifted into a register as you typed.  My 
motorised one also has a well-optimised multiply function and a fun 
non-restoring division algorithm.

Philip.


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