> On Jul 29, 2019, at 10:36 AM, J Forbes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting....I have a mechanical Comptometer (it's about 100 years old), it > has a similar keyboard layout, and little wheels to display the numbers. Mine > will add, and do one's compliment subtraction, but none of that silly > multiply or divide stuff. Progress!
My late friend Brooke Boering was something of an expert on comptometers: https://web.archive.org/web/20170325135139/http://www2.cruzio.com/~vagabond/ComptHome.html Some video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDDAbKURGZI Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor" "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe: attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... beams...in the dark in the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time...like tears in the rain." — Roy Batty, Blade Runner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/E33AA0E1-BA47-492A-A048-85E984D76762%40gmail.com.
