Retro

Elwro 151 – The last evolution of the 144 model

A little bit of calculators were produced in socialist Poland. There were models dedicated to the ordinary Kowalski, scientific designs for professors, printing for accountants or pocket calculators for school children. The basic and probably one of the most popular models was the Elwro 144, a classic base design, on which quite a few other calculators produced by the Elwro plant in Wroclaw were based. Today I would like to tell you about the latest evolution of the 144 model, the Elwro 151 calculator.

CANON CANOLA L100A – Planar display calculator

In the early 1970s, the Japanese company CANON mainly produced professional office calculators. Their quality was really high, after all, at that time the Japanese specialized primarily in industrial equipment, whose workmanship is by definition better compared to consumer devices.

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