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News from the members areaThe bulletin board currently contains 6836 entries. The last topics were

   04.10.2023 Gebrauchsanweisung precise ADDER (updated)
   03.10.2023 Vortrag 27.09.23 in Braunschweig: 400 Jahre Rechenmaschine - von Schickards Rechenuhr bis zur Brunsviga (updated)
   02.10.2023 Sholes Glidden (updated)

The calculator encyclopedia currently contains 2222 entries. The latest are

   30.09.2023 Muldivo C, Foncine-le-Haut, Jura (F)
   30.09.2023 Exakta , HB Produkter
   26.09.2023 NFI Addiermaschine 4, siehe Entwicklungsgeschichte

The typewriter encyclopedia currently contains 1408 entries. The latest are

   27.09.2023 TRIUMPH electric 131acs, Triumph-Adler AG
   26.09.2023 TRIUMPH electric 131 / 131c, Triumph-Adler AG
   26.09.2023 TRIUMPH Matura electric L / S (Modell 1960), GTA - Vertriebs - GMBH

05.09.2023
Historische Bürowelt No. 133 / September 2023

This issue contains

  • 400 years of calculating machines: Schickard, Pascal and their successors
  • 400 years of calculating machines: from the cabinet of curiosities to the engineering office
  • ChatGPT about the history of the development of calculating machines
  • Schickard 1623 - 1973 - 2023: Postage stamps, first-day letters, special coin editions and medals
  • Photo Album "400 Years of Calculating Machines"
  • The "do-all girl" – restoration of a Faktotum Mod. 2
  • Adding machine - braked - Patent by Otto Pütter & Benno Schmitz from Solingen (1877)
English translations of these articles can be found in the members area.

15.08.2023
New: HBw-Aktuell 07+08/2023

This issue contains:

  • Official invitation to the Annual General Meeting 2023 of IFHB e.V.
  • New board candidates introduce themselves
  • The IFHB meets at the Heimatverein Hoffenheim
  • A small mechanical calculator for the binary number system
  • Ballistic trajectory
  • Covered Conti
  • Odhner display model on rechnerlexikon.de

04.07.2023
Historische Bürowelt No. 132 / July 2023

This issue contains

  • Interest rates, interest calculators and an unusual find from Sweden
  • Olympia Musicwriter - New addition to my collection
  • Mercedes-Addelektra bookkeeping machine – bridge builder between areas of collecting (Part II)
  • The unfortunate Olympia 1011 - How a good idea became a huge flop
  • Britannic – small calculator with large capacity / Calculating in Pounds sterling
  • On collecting in post-industrial capitalism
  • Adler 7 with device for spaced writing
English translations of these articles can be found in the members area.

28.06.2023
New: HBw-Aktuell 06/2023

This issue contains:

  • Report on the Collector Meeting in HNF on 3 June 2023
  • Real Communication Makes Noise ...
  • Arithmeum Open Day: Special Exhibition 400 Years of Calculating Machines
  • Solution of the physics problem from HBw-Aktuell 05/2023
  • Stenographers' Association 1925 Treysa e. V. Opens Another Museum Room
  • Flea Market Find: PEZ Arithmetic
  • At the Everything Collectors in Palazzolo

31.05.2023
New: HBw-Aktuell 05/2023

This issue contains:

  • Curt Herzstark Memorial Meeting in Mauren, Liechtenstein
  • Math Today and for 400 Years
  • Little Effort - Large Audience
  • Event on 14.09. in Tübingen on Schickard
  • Olympia Calculating Machine Museum (ORM)
    - historical technology in a modern guise
  • The Teeth of Time
  • Erhard Anthes on his 80th Birthday

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