- Paperback: 204 pages
- Publisher: Wilson/Barnett Pub (April 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1888840145
- ISBN-13: 978-1888840148
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
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Book Description
"Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators" is the world's only comprehensive guide book to collecting of early electronic calculators.
In this book, you'll find information on the "Golden Age" of electronic calculators, including: a master listing of over 1,500 different models from over 220 companies; the earliest (and most valuable) pocket and portable calculators; exclusive details about rare calculators from Russia, East Europe, and South America; a concise historical summary of 1960's and 1970's calculator developments; how to find desirable calculators at the best prices; and a comprehensive pricing guide for all models listed.
About the Author
Guy Ball and Bruce Flamm are leading authorities on early, electronic calculators with a combined experience of over 30 years of calculator collecting. Both have extensively researched the birth and the explosive growth of electronic calculators during the late 1960s and early 1970s. They've interviewed and written about some of the top engineers and merchandisers of the day. In 1992, Ball and Flamm organized the International Association of Calculator Collectors, the world's largest group of its kind. They co-edit the organization's journal, the International Calculator Collector. They've authored articles for publications including Antique Trader amd Today's Collector and are calculator resources for many of the general collectible books on the market.
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4.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
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Nice guide, July 29 2010
By Johnny Bjoern Rasmussen - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators (Paperback)
This book is a nice guide covering a lot of LED- and flourcent-display calculators from many companies that I did not even know had made calculators. Consider this guide more as a glossary than a book as each calculator has a short description with the most basic features. A nice way to find out that there might be some of your redundant calculators that may be used as trading objects. Some reviewers have expressed dissapointment to the photographs of the calculators. Do not buy this guide for the photos only but use the photos as part of the guide as the photos only serves to show the differences between the enormous amount of calculators in this excellent guide. If you just want to look at calculator photos then don't buy this guide but use the World Wide Web instead or get in touch with a calculator collector like me.Thank you to the authors - nice guide. One could allmost wish for a similar guide covering the massive variety of programmable LCD calculators and pocket computers.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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My review of Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators..., May 16 1997
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators (Paperback)
This book is amazing. As a collector and researcher, I have not found any other book that comes close to the information you can find in this "Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators." It is great as a quick reference to models and types, as well as lots of fun just to sit and read about all the different variations on a theme. Great photos! Lots of work went into this and it shows. Great job. -- Mark Greeni
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A bit disappointing, July 27 2001
By A. Butterfield - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators (Paperback)
I just bought this to add to the collection I built up as a child before sealing it all away for a rainy day. Thought it would add something. Main problem for me is that the illustrations are so grim. I suppose you shouldn't expect too much from such a low-budget affair, but on the other hand, there is no excuse for grainy little images nowadays. So it's 2 stars. If you're strange enough to want to know all this stuff though, I guess you'll have to buy it, because the choice in this field is not exactly wide!
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