Presenting your collection of non HP calculators, is anyone interested of that?

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

I really love this thread! I've been collecting calculators for some 30 years but some of the machines make me stand in awe. Especially these "mini-FORTRAN" Sharps make me envious...

Here I can offer you a view into my "horror chamber": Calculators specifically produced to make money from people suffering from nonsensical pseudoscientific beliefs ;-)

Some biorhythm calculators:



(the same one as before but with Casio label, probably both were mady by Casio because they loook and feel casioish)




This is the nicest one with extra flashy LEDs to show which curve is close to dangerous levels:


Now two astrology calculators:

This one can be used as a real calculator even if it doesn't look like it. I just saw that the picture turned out bad, however Joerg Woerner dedicates a whole page to it with plenty of photos: http://www.datamath.org/Related/Kosmos/Astro.htm



A horoscope-only calculator without any "normal" calculator function:



And finally a numerology calculator (bought, who would have guessed, from Joerg Woerner...). Unfortunately I know nothing about it, it only came with a photocopied page explaining how to calculate one's lucky number for a lottery held on a specific date. This page refers extensively to the manual which I don't have. There is a single mention about this calculator in the whole world wide web, again with no instruction manual. I do not even know if the calculator can actually compute numerologic stuff, or if the missing manual just explains how to do that using a four-banger with one memory. At least the number keys have special alphabetic labels.

If anybody knows anything about this little oddity please let me know!



Regards
Max