Introduction

Early Anita Desktop Calculators
ANITA Mk 9
Anita Mk 9

ANITA Mk 9

The ANITA Mk 9 is similar to the ANITA Mk 8, but with additionally the capability of chain multiplication, e.g. "a" times "b" times "c" times "d" and so on. Again it has the full keyboard used in the Mk VII and Mk 8 and uses cold-cathode tube technology.

12-digit, "Nixie" type tube display.

The electronics is also similar to that of the ANITA Mk 8, and uses a Dekatron decade counter tube, cold-cathode switching tubes, selenium rectifiers, and vacuum tubes (thermionic valves).

Introduced 1964[1].

There is an operating manual for this machine in the Operating Manuals & Leaflets section.

 

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Keys & display

Close up of the keys and display.
Inside

The keyboard, on the right has been hinged completely over to reveal the electronics inside the machine. On the left are the red-coloured numerical display tubes, each mounted on the edge of a counter board. The Dekatron counter tube is in the lower middle of the photograph.
Circuit board

The Dekatron tube is at the lower right, driven by a vacuum tube, used as a blocking oscillator, to its left. Two vertical daughter boards to the left carry cold-cathode trigger tubes and selenium rectifiers. Further black, rectangular, selenium rectifiers can be seen around the Dekatron
Inside rear

Inside the rear of the machine with the power supply and more vacuum tubes. These are mounted right at the back of the main board, underneath vents when the casing is replaced, to provide an outlet for the heat generated.

References:

  1. "Lamson Industries Limited", The Times, 2nd April 1965.
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