On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:02:04 -0600, "
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On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:23:59 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:42:02 -0600, "
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For the record Harry, what I said was I googled "KURTA" which is
exactly what krw had posted.
^^^
Certainly wasn't me. I think it was "Clare", in defense of his silly idea
that microprocessors aren't computers. I've never heard of the thing.

I posted the correction- it is CURTA.

I didn't say otherwise.

If you've never heard of one-You haven't rallyed Particularly back in
the seventies.

Nope. I never got into the sport but even calculators were forbidden in the
rallies my friends participated in.

I ran the Ontario Regional Navigational Rallye Championship series for
3 years back in the late 70s and early 80s.
Curtas and sliderules (mostly the round ones) ruled back then, and
programmable calculators were legal the final year I competed. We had
an electronic odometer designed (usung a calculator) that we would
have used the next year had we continued, as well as an HP
Programmable calculator that my "aggravator"used us a civil
engineering technologist and had programmed to do the ET calculations.