for DU`ers under 65 what is this...

[madrchsod]

and what replaced it?

[Eyerish]

1. cash register or some type of counting device?

[Capn Sunshine]

2. I've got two of those in my office!

Inherited from my grandfather, who used them pre-1950.
yeah, I'm a 10 key master and still use it in lieu of a calculator because I can double check the tape! I am so fast it would blow your mind, dude.

[blue_roses_lib]

10. Hey that looks like the Canon in my office!

Seriously, everyone at work knows not to fuck with my 10-key because I go crazy when my settings get changed, and when someone moves it on my desk. It's inthe perfect positon for me to be able to relax my hand and go uber fast. ARGH!!! I do it by touch. Long as my carpal tunnel isn't acting up, I'm fast and accurate. I should time myself one and see.

[madrchsod]

12. i watched my mother use one of these until the early 60`s

she was a bookkeeper for a beauty and barber supply company. if my mom was alive she`s leave you in the dust!

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I remember seeing one of those.

It's a kind of calculator sort of thing, isn't it?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear madrchsod...

That is an old-fashioned adding machine, or maybe a cash box.

I think.

We had one that looked a lot like this, except there was a row of windows at the top where the numbers showed as you hit the keys below.

This machine was replaced by calculators...

IF it is what I think it is!

:hi:

[madrchsod]

13. sure is...my mom used one of these until the early 60`s.

i still have it and it weighs a ton!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. We called ours "Black Bart"...

And when we switched to calculators, we donated it to the local pre-school. The kids loved it and it was indestructible!

Ours was also very heavy!

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

5. That is an adding machine.

Replaced by the handheld calculator.

I'm 41, btw. :)

[merh]

6. It replaced these, didn't it?

[LeftyFingerPop]

7. A sandwich.

[madamesilverspurs]

8. I had a professor who had something similar

on his desk. He told us it would someday be replaced by a portable 'cackulator'.

[Brigid]

9. And old adding machine.

Replaced by the electronic calculator.

[kwassa]

11. A Comptometer

Anyone knows that.

With the classic copper exterior.

Replaced by the abacus

[Blue_In_AK]

15. That's the word!

I was wracking my brain trying to think of what that was called. You have a great memory -- or excellent "look-up" skills. :)

[kwassa]

18. Actually ....

a little hard to see, but it is written on the front of the machine in the OP.

Then I looked it up.

http://www2.cruzio.com/~vagabond/ComptHome.html

I had visited my dad's office in the GM headquarters in Detroit. I remember it because it was on the 11th floor and I had never been that high before! There was this huge machine on the desk that looked like these. I also was shown the punch-card machine

It was probably about 1960, when I was eight.

[busybl]

14. I worked temp at Robinsons in the 80s

and believe it or not they still had one of these. I was the only one who could work it cuz I used
to help my mom when she worked at a corner grocery.

[qnr]

17. I'd say this replaced it :)

A CBM Model 202 seen at a local Goodwill thrift store last month:

[old mark]

19. I know! A mechanical calculator.....

On navy ships in WWII they used a mechanical computer - using gears - to find torpedo firing angles for moving ships.
The one pictured was more for payroll - A lot were made by Burroughs Corp.

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