Walther Mechanical Calculator

[Mike]

Got a new toy. Very cool! Very fast mechanical multiplication and division. However, I can't figure out the purpose of two controls.

One is below the carriage on the right and the other is on the carriage to the front.

Edited: 15 Feb 2004, 6:30 p.m.

[Mark Glusker]

There's an owners manual online at:

http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/muldivo_mentor.html

[Bill Wiese]

Is this the same Walther Co. that makes pistols & submachineguns?

Damn, gonna have to get one... A Walther in the gunsafe, a Walther outside the gunsafe!

Bill W.

San Jose CA

[Charlie O.]

Yes it is.

[Paul Brogger]

Just make sure you've got a trigger lock on that thing, if you're not going to keep it in the safe. You wouldn't want weapons of maths instruction to fall into the wrong hands . . .

. . . also, when you empty your clip in self defense, you can follow up by throwing the calculator rather than the unloaded gun. The calc is a much heavier projectile.

;^)

[David Smith]

I was atthe hardware store today buying WMD's... weapons of mouse destruction. It'll teach the little goomers to gnaw on my spark plug wires...

[James Bond]

Do you have to be "Licensed to Calculate" to own that?