Customer Reviews

Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators

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This book is a nice guide covering a lot of LED- and flourcent-display calculators from many companies that I did not even know had made calculators. Consider this guide more as a glossary than a book as each calculator has a short description with the most basic features. A nice way to find out that there might be some of your redundant calculators that may be used as trading objects. Some reviewers have expressed dissapointment to the photographs of the calculators. Do not buy this guide for the photos only but use the photos as part of the guide as the photos only serves to show the differences between the enormous amount of calculators in this excellent guide. If you just want to look at calculator photos then don't buy this guide but use the World Wide Web instead or get in touch with a calculator collector like me.

Thank you to the authors - nice guide. One could allmost wish for a similar guide covering the massive variety of programmable LCD calculators and pocket computers.

This book is amazing. As a collector and researcher, I have not found any other book that comes close to the information you can find in this "Collector's Guide to Pocket Calculators." It is great as a quick reference to models and types, as well as lots of fun just to sit and read about all the different variations on a theme. Great photos! Lots of work went into this and it shows. Great job. -- Mark Greeni

I just bought this to add to the collection I built up as a child before sealing it all away for a rainy day. Thought it would add something. Main problem for me is that the illustrations are so grim. I suppose you shouldn't expect too much from such a low-budget affair, but on the other hand, there is no excuse for grainy little images nowadays. So it's 2 stars. If you're strange enough to want to know all this stuff though, I guess you'll have to buy it, because the choice in this field is not exactly wide!

If you remember all the variety that used to exist in the pocket calculator world when you were younger, this book will bring all the memories back.

I had forgotten how many of these old things there used to be. Well worth it as a reference to reflect on the old days.