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Re: Navigational computers
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Oct 23, 05:23 -0300
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Oct 23, 05:23 -0300
> -----Original Message----- > From: Lisa Fiene on October 23, 2004 4:21 AM > A friend has let me know that he's wanting to buy one of the following, > as his brother has recommended it, as it's 'what all the merchant > professionals use'. > http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/tamaya_nc-77.html > His brother's view is it's so easy to make a mistake manually with CN > and this makes it almost impossible. Lisa, that's an old version of the classic Tamaya calculator. As I recall Jared (?) and others discussed its history as a USN version. I don't know whether what the disadvantages are of owning an old version of a CN calculator, but the price certainly might be right. The latest from Tamaya is the NC-2100, US$900+: http://www.sailgb.com/sshop/prod_info.asp?pid=12237 or http://www.tamaya-technics.com/nc-2100.html in Japanese. See http://www.starpath.com/catalog/accessories/starpilot/compare.pdf for Starpath's comparison of current hand calculators dedicated to CN. Jim
