This 1942 ad for a comptometer is just perfect because first of all, I had no idea what a comptometer was (a mechanical calculator, basically) and second, the spec sheet is wonderful: no glare dials, ...
You've got to give Hi Tech Systems some credit for effort: to help their broadcast video controllers stand out at a recent industry expo, they put together the Comptometer, a Steampunk-styled console ...
Q: I was wondering what happened to the Allentown Comptometer School that was directly across from Hess’s Department Store? I don’t even know what a Comptometer was, but I remember the school. A: The ...
If you build a specialized type of hardware which, by design, rarely arouses emotions of physical desire in the general populace, you can see how you might have a bit of a challenge promoting your ...
Special to The New York Times. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print ...
About this time 130 years ago, Dorr Felt, of Chicago, invented the Comptometer. I learned that while looking up something else. A major method of learning interesting things is to look up something ...
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