42 year old 1967 vintage Casio calculator still working

[xoio]

How cool

[migfsx]

U need to run it an antivirus!

[TheEPROM9]

That is something you should keep. Get it cleaned up and evict all the spiders and dead woodlice. Then it can have any electrical issues sorted and get a home on a desk or shelf where it can continue to do maths for eternity.

[ivex100]

You do have an accent, and your a prick! i was gonna give you 50cents for that p.o.s. calculator but your just to greedy!

[latribe]

@ivex100 It's a sad fact of life that people only value what they pay for. The converse is true - easy come easy go. The chances are that were I to give it away or sell it for a few dimes, it would not be valued and it would be destroyed as a mere unappreciated curiosity somewhere down the line and end up in a skip. I put a high price on it (offers are welcome, of course) so that it will be valued, appreciated and preserved.

[HLD452]

No wonder calculators were huge before. I have a Casio calculator that prints but sadly, it's faulty. It works but it's faulty.

[place910]

This is the most relaxing video I've ever watched.

[Slovenija12345]

it have cool nixie tubes :)

[ThePhoneUpdate]

I have an old handheld calculator from ~1973. Works great and is still used as my main desk calc! haha!

[rodstartube]

your accent is scottish

[Detroit8V92tta]

It was made in 1967 and still works, i'm not suprised. It's made by casio....not Apple!

[rapidrory]

I've got something like that in the attic ( It looks very slightly newer). I don't think it works, but it may just be a power supply issue. It has ferrite core memory and a nixie tube display much like your one.

[S0lidState]

talk about state-of-the-art.

[Spongeflux]

I almost granted you with some credibility until I saw you wanted a grand for it.

You are quite obviously off your tits. Too many fly agaric's.

[latribe]

@Spongeflux OK. So how do you value it?

[Spongeflux]

Possibly look at other ones for sale on ahem, ebay that tend to go for a couple of hundred quid?

Personally, I would value it at less than two thirds of the price you are asking.

A nice machine but I bet you have the odd fly agaric tucked away in the back of a desk draw for a rainy day.

This is purely supposition as I'm not sure how long they last after being picked. Anyway, I'll get my jacket.........

[latribe]

@Spongeflux Well that's the point - there aren't any. This calculator with core memory is museum material.

[prosporter6]

I love your accent. :)

[latribe]

@prosporter6 I don't have an accent!

[prosporter6]

@latribe Well, your way of talking? I live in America and it sounds so cool! :D

[latribe]

@prosporter6 :-)

[Elastane]

lovely stuff

[WorldForeverChanged]

you sound like a conservative who hates the welfare system and the poor, no offence lol.

[latribe]

@WorldForeverChanged You can't tell a sausage by its skin nor the sound of someone's voice. What else gives you your impression?

[baneskrbic]

Try diving by 0.

[TheGdragon123]

i want to play GTA

[zinpgh]

Electronics and many other products are now engineered to fail after a few years and consumers tolerate it since prices are relatively lower :(

[JingleJoe]

Excellent device! The nixie tubes are wonderful :D

[oracularp]

This was great to see! I really love the nixie tubes used as the numerical display; I have a secret love of those. Thanks for sharing!

[phoxetis]

amazing. Thanks for the demo!

[rick62008]

Awesome machine. Grest finding! Can't you repair the sticking keys? Oh, and thanks for showing its guts! I always ondered how such old calculator would look inside.

Does it have any integrated circuit inside or is it all raw components like capacitors and resistors etc?

[latribe]

@rick62008 Hi! It's all discrete components - very much before the days of ICs or even thick film circuit modules that preceded them.

[salvin2]

Awesome, thanks for posting this. I am researching old calculators today in an effort to mimic the aesthetics of these machines for an iPh0ne app interface and it's wonderful to be able to actually see a video of its operation, as opposed to so many (usually low-res) images. Cheers

[upturnedkangaroo]

looks cool, so good that people keep all these old odds 'n' sods so that they can be looked at and studied in the future, so we know where things came from.

[Iglitchlife]

Cool, but how do Nixie Tubes Work?

[prosporter6]

I love your accent. :D

[anwarstudio]

Wow! Beautiful Machine!!! I Want one of this!!!

[zederish]

stupid thing I won't take it even if its free

[latribe]

Could you design it? Do you know how a ferrite core memory works? Can you repair it? Can you do a square root without a calculator knob that says "square root"? Could you have done this in 1967? Did you have a calculator to programme and compute numbers to your sequence of instructions in 1967? Do you programme a computer now to carry out sequential calculations?

Which is more stupid therefore? This calculator or you?

Sorry for provocation - as a civilisation we have lost our roots.

[zederish]

chill out grandpa, I can't do none of the things u said. but does a 42 years old worth 5000 pounds? I think u just found it some were and u think if u put high price on it people will buy it and u'll make money out of nothing. If I'm a millionair I won't pay even 1 penny for it bcos is ugly and its not the first calculator . maybe u can give it as a gift to a museum, who knows maybe the take it.

[latribe]

No - the whole point sadly is that people only treasure what they value. If they value something they will treasure it. That will ensure its preservation.

[zederish]

no the whole point is people think all old things r treasure or they pretend its treasure to encourage people to buy them. its all about money and u know it better than me

[latribe]

Fine - you said you would not take it if it was free. You would not treasure it if it was free. If you know something is worth a lot of money then you have to be mad not to treasure it.

This calculator is one day going to go to a major museum and not merely end up in landfill having been in someone's back shed being disposed of by philistines and hooligans after they've died. It is priced out of the back shed market for that reason to ensure its preservation.

[maglight117]

@latribe we will soon say this in the future when the most powerful computer in the world is beat by a PC in the future

[richfiles]

@latribe You said it. I've been studying how these old machines work. The process of division or finding a square root is impressive. I'm currently working on some old Commodore calculators right now, and have a Compucorp 324 Scientist and a Mechanical Friden STW on my plate as well. I have not yet found older models than what I have, but I seek them for both preservation, AND intrigue. I love to understand how these machines were designed to perform their calculations.

[kensingtonpalace]

that's just too cool!

[maxighb]

Are you willing to sell it?

[latribe]

Perhaps . . .

[Trance88]

Now that is a calculator! It's amazing how much space it takes up to do what something that fits in your wallet today does.

[dragonservicing]

these early programmable calculators were really expensive ! must have been well constructed to still be working. I don't think that much of the present computer items will be working in 40 years time.

[matkovicha]

I love the nixie tubes!

[MrPete81]

That is absolutely fantastic! Thanks for sharing your find!