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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

SIR – I can well remember comptometers (Letters, March 31). I worked for London Transport in the 1960s in their office at the old Hillingdon Station. There were about 48 women in eight sections and ...

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