Alpina's compact mechanical calculator

The good-looking Alpina “competitor to the Curta” from 1961 is seen briefly in this video:

Edit: oh, here’s a video of the machine in action:

There’s a better photo at the Science Museum.

And more detail, and a very nice photo, in this forum post, which tells us there was a short second production run in 1971:
https://gasgasbones.forumchitchat.com/post/incoming-rarity-alpina-mechanical-calculator-8213034

See also
http://www.johnwolff.id.au/calculators/Mini/Mini.htm#Alpina

The video is about the TI SR60A, a programmable desktop calculator from 1977 (and an HP-67 is also briefly seen):

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