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To: mylife; Daffynition
And before the Friden mechanical calculator, came the Comptomoter ...

... rows & rows of women operating this marvel of efficiency, with both hands. Now, dem wuz da good ole days!

45 posted on 12/26/2011 9:26:10 AM PST by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: shove_it

Ooops, make that comptometer.


46 posted on 12/26/2011 9:30:23 AM PST by shove_it (just undo it)
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A room full of computers, as they were called back then.

Not the machines, the people.


49 posted on 12/26/2011 11:42:12 AM PST by Erasmus (Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Or, get out your 50mm/1.2.)
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