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From: John.Sanfilippo@f608.n107.z1.fidonet.org (John Sanfilippo)
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Subject: Re: Japanese Abacus
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

Fill,

You were wondering if anyone on blinktalk uses an Japanese
abacus.

Well, when I was in high school, I too fell in love with the
thing.  This was before the age of talking things, and in fact
it was also just before calculators--At least I hadn't seen any
before 1970.  I don't know if what I used was a Japanese abacus:
the one I had had 13 columns, a single bead and 4 beads in each
column, if you get my meaning.  I basically used it for
remembering numbers and some simple calculations, but it never
really got off the ground for me.

Nice chatting with you.

jjcs

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