The Abacus always appears to me to be an instrument built into a case of an keyboard from a bygone era, the panel buttons remind me of the switches on my old Korg Polysix, it doesn't have the sleek lines of todays instruments, perhaps its indicative of the country they are produced in but its visual appearance is becoming very dated.
[This message has been edited by pasadoble (edited 10-16-2007).]