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This Alpina is in excellent condition and was previously held in the Dunottar Collection.

The Alpina manual is reproduced at http://www.crisvandevel.de/alinst.htm

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The Alpina was, the ultimately unsuccessful competitor to the Curta calculators. Both Alpina and Curta were miniaturised step-drum machines but the detail of how that was achieved differed and the Curta was the more elegant solution, able to be reduced in size even further than the Alpina.

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