Putting order in the garage, he found the adding machine Felix M 1978 release
This is not a gadget with a bunch of electronics, but a heavy representative of old iron.
A long time ago, my father worked as a metalworking engineer, and for calculations they used a piece of paper and a slide rule. Therefore, to speed up the calculations, the father bought himself a mechanical arithmometer in 1978. It was the sunset of the era of adding machines. In 1978, it was relatively free to buy Electronics B3-18A , but it cost 220r at an engineer salary of 120-140p, while the adding machine cost 15p. Actually, the price and the need for constant payments have become a decisive factor. Felix M swept across the union from Cherepovets, where, by the way, was bought, to Baikonur and Vladivostok. And it weighs a lot - just over 5kg. ')
Let's start the review. Felix spent the last 20-25 years in the garage, traveled a lot, so his appearance is not the best, but all the mechanisms work fine (even lubrication was not required).
Front view: 1 - addition / subtraction handle 2 - levers for exhibiting a number 3 - the lock 4 - counter reset lever 5 - rev counter 6 - result 7 - shift lever 8 - lever reset result
View from the left side:
Back view: Stamping close-up:
View from the right side:
Bottom view:
View from above:
Revolution count:
Result:
Below, for example, multiply 11 by 321 for this: 1) we expose 11 2) 1 turn - multiply by 1 3) right shift by 1 4) 2 turns - multiply by 20 5) right shift by 1 6) 3 turns - multiply by 300 it turned out 3531