On April 22, 2019 at 20:38, EXT said...
I think I saw a couple of old Frieden calculators, mostly mechanical but could add, subtract, multiply and divide. They would run you $2,000 to $3,000 each in the early 1960s. More than many cars. They didn't print out the answer, but displayed it in a movable carriage and you would have to write down the answer. How things have improved.
One of my first jobs was during high school, where I was doing cost accounting, and I had to use one those monsters.
This was in the days of punch card "computers".
I had to mark up the cards with the info, then give them to the "computer" department where my aunt worked as a data entry clerk (typing on a punch card machine) then handling them off to the "computer" guys who ran them through card sorter, etc, etc, so they could have a printout for inventory and payroll.
Man, I am old....LOL
