Elka 22 Explained

The Elka 22 was the second Bulgarian electronic calculator; it was released in 1966 and its serial production began in 1967 in the town of Silistra. Weighing 8.5 kilograms (18.7 pounds), the Elka 22 has 3 registers and operates with 12 decimal digits. Addition speed is 0.3 seconds per operation, and division speed is 0.5 seconds. Its power consumption is 35 watts.[1] This calculator has a plastic case, a nixie tube display and its technology is based on numerous phenol boards populated with hundreds of discrete transistors, diodes and resistors, not unlike other calculator models developed around the mid-1960s. The machine used a magnetic-core memory.

References

  1. Web site: ELKA-22 Bulgarian Calculator . Soviet Digital Electronics Museum . Sergei . Frolov . 1999-12-19 . 2014-08-17 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150526055144/http://rk86.com/frolov/elka22.htm . 2015-05-26 ., pictures at the website