The Ternary (base 3) calculator and 1960's desktop calculators. (I remember those Frieden machines.)
Babbage's Difference Engine built from LEGOs.
The GENIAC. Couldn't afford this one when I was a kid.
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I could used a geniac..with an electronic brain I coulda been a contender, Seneca..Sigh.
Don't forget the CURTA. Designed by Curt Herzstark while he was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp, and "... widely considered the best portable calculators available, until they were displaced by electronic calculators in the 1970s." (BTW, I have one of these in the original plastic case. The top screwed on in the reverse direction from normal caps.)
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