Comments on: In Soviet Russia, the Calculator ... oh, never mind!

In Soviet Russia, the Calculator ... oh, never mind!

anastasiav — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:56:49 -0800

Soviet Calculators

By: Jikido

Jikido — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:02:02 -0800

In Soviet Russia calculators find square root with you!

By: Kwantsar

Kwantsar — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:05:26 -0800

(this is good.)

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:07:26 -0800

Boing-Boing-Filter.

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:09:54 -0800

Ooooh, good post. Don't know if the server's gonna make it though... maybe a cached link would help a bit.

By: Venadium

Venadium — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:23:06 -0800

MetaFilter: START SURF HERE

By: drezdn

drezdn — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:45:26 -0800

Fun Fact: The Soviets had really big pockets.

By: Rumple

Rumple — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:47:19 -0800

[this is good] not everyone reads or even does boing-boing

By: teferi

teferi — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 10:57:42 -0800

[this is great]

By: PHINC

PHINC — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:05:06 -0800

Of course the batteries fit in the suitcase (Longer joke #5).

These calculators are truly mezmerizing.

By: cytherea

cytherea — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 11:29:29 -0800

I can't believe they made a calculator where you interact with an 8088 in assembly.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:25:11 -0800

I'm sitting here with my big, clunky wind-up Vostok watch (purchased on eBay), looking at these calculators thinking "nobody did Big, Clunky and Functional like the Soviets". Cool stuff.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:25:00 -0800

Excellent! But I think "Russian calculators" would be a better name for the site, since they start with the Odhner-Hill machines, made well before the Revolution. (You can see some nice pictures here, dated from 1874 on, and a brief biographical article about V.T. Odhner in Russian, with a picture, here.)

By: paulsc

paulsc — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 18:47:20 -0800

Slide rules. The MILSPEC approved, battlefield tested numerical manipulation solution, since 1949. Because ballistics demands the right number, at the right time.

By: louigi

louigi — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 08:03:53 -0800

This is exactly the kind of post I've come to expect from anastasiav - and it's why I have her posts page bookmarked. Thanks so much, av!

By: MinPin

MinPin — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 14:12:13 -0800

I love the invitation to "sing my guestbook". After half a bottle of vodka, I think I would.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:41:42 -0800

Also from BoingBoing, Soviet/Eastern European/Russian home computers.