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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: 'Antique' machine info sought...
Summary: The Victor "Comptometer"
Message-ID: <4026@kitty.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 90 18:46:24 GMT
References: <90253.024510KITBASH@MTUS5.BITNET> <142343@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <39321@siemens.siemens.com>
Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY
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In article <39321@siemens.siemens.com>, fwb@demon.siemens.com (Frederic W. Brehm) writes:
> > ... I like to think of it as a monument to all
> >those startup companies that didn't quite make it.   :-/
> 
> Victor was hardly a startup company.  It made and sold calculators for a
> long time before it sold personal computers.

	Victor manufactured a rather classic product which predated the
electronic calculator - a mechanical monster under the tradename of
"Comptometer".  Similar mechanical calculators were manufactured by
Monroe and Marchant (later part of SCM).  Running a decent division
on one of the suckers was an impressive sight... :-)

Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp.  "Have you hugged your cat today?"
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