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A brief history of counting machines (2023)

https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-counting-stuff

by gus_leonel • 1 year ago

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wgreenberg• 1 year ago

Describing the Curta calculator as having been made “in Austria starting in the 1930s” is a wild way to gloss over the fact that its creator, Curt Herzstark, was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp and was forced to design and manufacture it for the Nazi forces[1].

This article, which starts by lamenting the “injustice” of “expansionist” historians, sure makes an interesting effort to ignore the actual history of one of its subjects.

[1] https://newatlas.com/curta-death-camp-calculator/45506/

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