The sample arrived today. It is a faithful reproduction of the original, complete with the yellow card cover. To be honest, it is better than the original, because now all the text and tables are perfectly aligned, and there is not a print blemish to be seen.
Congratulations to CurtaGuy for a job exceptionally well done!! There is no doubt that the quality targets which you set yourself have been achieved.

[As I informed PeteJ, my delayed response was due to an out of town excursion, of which I just returned. ]

Thanks for the showers of praise Peter. And even though you deem some of the tables "perfectly aligned", I still see places wherein I could've/should've done a bit better. Again, I'm OCD -- and had an eye out for every detail.

It was just the fact I was working with a mouse alone (and not a pen tablet) which limited my patience on the project.

Thanks again for the public positive feedback. It is certainly better than the original, yes, but the original was far from perfect to begin with.

CurtaGuy

Before / After -- for those interested:

http://i1130.photobucket.com/albums/m526/curtaguy/bef-aft-1.jpg

Reading my post from Tuesday 9 August again, I see that I was unintentionally ambiguous. When I said "better than the original", I was not referring to the careworn specimen which you started with as the original, but to what a typical new booklet would have been like, on the shelf in Van Nuys, all those years ago. They obviously had print defects such as skewed tables, etc, which you have corrected at the same time as removing all the graffiti and other page damage.

Peter Johnson wrote:

Reading my post from Tuesday 9 August again, I see that I was unintentionally ambiguous. When I said "better than the original", I was not referring to the careworn specimen which you started with as the original, but to what a typical new booklet would have been like, on the shelf in Van Nuys, all those years ago. They obviously had print defects such as skewed tables, etc, which you have corrected at the same time as removing all the graffiti and other page damage.

What PeteJ said!

The quality of this original, non-worn booklet was nowhere near the quality of one of the original, non-worn Curta Manuals. This booklet was a "throw together" of tables, along with some pertinent (sales) info about promoting its capabilities (the book, after all, came from one of their distributors.)

To those who have the reproduction of the Curta Manual from J.C., the quality his reproduction was probably, in part, due to a better specimen to work with in the first place. (I do have an original Curta Manual, and one of JC's reproductions - so I am making this comparison first hand.)

TY again, PJ -- and for the (though unneeded) clarification!

Reproduction Curta "Yellow" Math Booklets are not available any longer available (from me.)

I assembled the Yellow Book into a PDF for public domain consumption (disclaimer -- background 'watermarked' included to stay free for all.)

Anyone willing to host it who has the ongoing bandwidth?

It's ~ 22MB.

-CurtaGuy

(good things need time...)


The Mathematical Handbook - The Curta Company, Van Nuys, California

is ready for free download


Thanks to CurtaGuy

Thanks both, much appreciated.

Much appreciated indeed!