ЕЛЕКТРОНИКА MK 52 & 61

[Ignatz]

(11-23-2019 05:24 PM)watchmaker Wrote:  

Quote:those bilious-green LEDs

They are not LEDs, but vacuum fluorescent tubes. Soviet calculator LEDs were only red, very similar to HP's.

Quote:That is the result of 3 ENTER 3 x^y... and it takes about four seconds to give the result. Happily, 3 ENTER 3 x 3 x does give 27. Just imagine running the Soviet space program on these buggers!!!

These calculators do not distinguish between real and integer numbers when calculating power functions, they always do them as x^y=10^(y*lg(x)). And unlike many Casios and TIs, they DO NOT hold one or two more digits in memory, they hold only what they display...

(11-23-2019 05:27 PM)watchmaker Wrote:  By the way, MK-52 is also post-Soviet: it has a narrow 2-pin power jack introduced approx. May 1992 (the same one as in MK-61). Before that date MK-52 had a wide 3-pin jack.

(11-23-2019 11:24 PM)Paul Dale Wrote:  

(11-23-2019 01:21 PM)Ignatz Wrote:  That is the result of 3 ENTER 3 x^y... and it takes about four seconds to give the result. Happily, 3 ENTER 3 x 3 x does give 27. Just imagine running the Soviet space program on these buggers!!!

They are way more accurate than slide rules. I expect they'd be fine for a space program.


Pauli

(11-24-2019 03:03 AM)ijabbott Wrote:  

(11-23-2019 11:24 PM)Paul Dale Wrote:  They are way more accurate than slide rules. I expect they'd be fine for a space program.

The slide rule would probably not fall apart as easily as these calculators though.

(11-24-2019 09:46 AM)badaze Wrote:  If you need a maraca and you don’t have you can use your MK 61.
BTW if you have an Elektronika MK 85 you can use MK 61’s charger.

(11-24-2019 10:09 AM)Nad Wrote:  I have them both and love them, they're GREAT calculators. They even supply you with a circuit diagram. Super cool!

I think someone here even did an English translation of the manuals.

Russia's the only country that can currently send people into space (and bring them home!), so they must be doing something right.

(11-24-2019 11:56 AM)watchmaker Wrote:  

Quote:BTW if you have an Elektronika MK 85 you can use MK 61’s charger.

But it would be better to stabilize it with a 7806.

Thanks for the replies, everyone!!! ... I must admit to being particularly taken with the brutalism of the MK 52... it even has a row of expansion ports up top... I wonder what they were for?