[DManA]

I hate the fact that I’m so old that when I was a kid state of the art offices had adding machines with crank handles.

[NCjim]

Exactly. I remember visiting my Dad's office and playing with the mechanical Marchant and Friden calculating machines. You could divide by zero forever. :-)

http://www.hpmuseum.org/ffmotor.htm

[expat_panama]

adding machines with crank handles.

--and my first engineering job used those adding machines for log-sines & log-tangents to plot survey data.

[GOPJ]

I remember those...

[FourPeas]

Oh, don’t hate it — celebrate it! I still have the very same old hand crank adding machine my grandparents used in their family business during the time when I was a kid. Just think of how many fabulous things we’ve been able to see over the years. There’s so much more to appreciate in today’s technology than the young people, who’ve grown up with it, can appreciate. We’ve watched a revolution. And, an amazing one, to boot.

Ahem. Sorry.

*gets off soapbox*