Facit 1004
The very last manual Facit machine on sale - from 1967 to 1972. I've never had one, but I found this in a second-hand shop in the middle of the Netherlands, for a very reasonable 15 EUR. It needed a bit of a clean, but was basically fully functional, and complements my collection of later 10-key calculators - the much rarer Schubert E, and Olympia RT4. It has a carrying handle, which is made of a plastic that gets brittle with age, so I woudn't really trust it to carry the machine by. Other than that it does all you would expect from a late mechanical calculator - it has clearing buttons for the registers, a division set-up button (the one with the arrow that ends in a dot), a button to set the setting register to the right side of the result register (the arrow with 11), and back transfer from both the result and the counter register to the input - this is very simply operated by pulling the large lever on the left side next to the two clearing levers for result and counter registers. It transfers the contents of whatever register the setting register is under to the setting register. If it's the counter, the number can be made visible by pressing the "11" button. Getting the setting register to move elsewhere than with all its positions visible to back transfer a number in a different position than on the right side of the register is much trickier with this machine. Sensitive use of the setting register reset lever by not entirely pressing it to the end of its travel can generally end you with just one zero visible in the setting register - then you can use the arrow keys to create the leading zeroes necessary for back transfer.
Serial number, 883278, and made in West-Germany instead of Sweden:
The somewhat sketchy handle ...
