Dan Piponi on Nostr: Someone was selling this "not working" on eBay for $30 but it was easy to see it was ...
Someone was selling this "not working" on eBay for $30 but it was easy to see it was repairable. This is *not* the famous device Shirriff reverse engineered but a fancier programmable version. I used to have one as a kid but it died on me.
It's as accurate as a slide rule. The display shows the result of computing exp(1).
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