Calculator Forums
and
Calculator Discussion Groups
Calculator Forums and Discussion Groups are the places to discuss calculators and ask calculator questions.
There are two active calculator
forums, with questions, answers, appeals for specific calculators and parts, and items offered for disposal.
The new Google Group OldCalculatorForum is a calculator discussion group for the exchange of information about old calculators, both mechanical and electronic.
Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/oldcalculatorforum to read the messages, or join and become a member of the group to participate and receive emails of new messages.
CALCLIST-L
CALCLIST-L is a forum mainly concerned with mechanical calculators, but also has some discussion on electronic calculators.
View the forum archive at http://tx.technion.ac.il/archives/calclist-l.html.
You need to register to send items to the forum, and items can be automatically emailed to you as they are
posted on the forum - details are on the site.
The following two forums no longer appear to be active:
Vintage Calculator "Newsgroup"/Forum
Those of us who collect a variety of calculators have needed a newsgroup to call our own. IACC member James Redin has been nice enough to set up the next best thing -- World
of Calculators (successor to his previous Vintage Calculator Forum) is a forum/posting area for discussion of vintage calculating devices.
If you have questions, comments, or any other kind of postings,
that's the place for you. The subject matter can include calculators of all types -- early electronic, desktop, pocket, mechanical, Addiator-types, modern LCD, novelty, old slide rules, Curtas, and anything else that comes
to mind.
Go visit it at: World of Calculators.
Automatic Calculator Email List
Thanks to Kevan Heydon, the calculator world has a new automatic email list, the eGroups oldcalcs forum. This list will deal with subjects in the vintage calculator arena (electronic -
portable & pocket - and some of the mechanical items).
How do you get on the list?
Go to the ecalc list page and sign in under group info. Once a member, you can email them a message using the instructions found on that page.
Your email note will be automatically forwarded to everyone who is on the calculator email list. People can respond to you directly or by emailing back to the list.
You must be a subscriber to post a message. This will help protect your email address.
This list is similar to that run by Erez Kaplan (see his web site listed in our website link section). People on that list are primarily interested in mechanical calculators. We do not want to take anything away from that service, so please email the larger mechanical and older calculating machine items to his.
