Friden EC-130 Help

On 2/2/2015 12:38 AM, drlegendre . wrote: My buy was not unusual. The dealer had sold out probably 50 of them and I got the last ones he had. They were considered more valuable for the display than as an artifact. Remember this is in the 1975 and prior time frame. And a lot were kept around, but there were really a lot retired as the revolution of the small solid state units showed up. The Wang and fancier older units with scientific processing (read floating point) survived quite a bit longer. And the HP ones of course were in a different class. But going from 71 when I started college and into the time when I found these, the small LED 7 segment gizmos were mostly wiping these out. I'm not talking everywhere, but these would be in business settings, and the newer calculators were more popular than these which are effectively RPN. Not that you couldn't do what you needed to, but in business, calculators that ran tapes didn't easily map functionality into this unit, so shifting to one of these and then back to a possible mechanical calculator to run a tape not only required a change in how you ran the info, but also how you did the problem. I never would have considered breaking one up unless it was a basket case, as the last thing that burned out in these were the CRT modules. But he had sold a lot of junkers he had to a local ham who was going to salvage them. He had been given notice that he would not have a job, and he had a house full of crap to clear out as far as he was concerned. As I do now, I showed up and transfer crap from one place in Lafayette, La, to my place. I don't call them assholes, but it is unfortunate that more were not salvaged. But I see why. BTW more perspective on the guy I found it was not a really good time for him, he could have walked away from the rented house and left all the crap. Crappy pay from a flaky company was where he was at and soon no pay. Jim