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^ Yes, the infamous tv room at the Thomas Jefferson Hotel. It's undergoing renovations right now though, R.I.P.
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I'll admit, this one even took me a second. This was found inside of a school that closed down around 2007 if I remember correctly.
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Cash Register by Nate Conn, on Flickr
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Yo Nate, I think that might be a check-writer or an adding machine. No cash drawer, bro.
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Huh, I didn't realize that before. Any idea why there are 10 of each number?
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Posted by OkapisRule Huh, I didn't realize that before. Any idea why there are 10 of each number?
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No '0's either...
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Appears to be some kind of pneumatic mail system.
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That's an antique adding machine. I'm trying to think of how to word this so it's understandable lol... There are no zeros because you enter each of the figures one at a time. Say you were trying to get 6098... You'd press the "6" in the thousands column, you would press no button at all in the hundreds, "9" in the tens and "8" in the ones. Then you press the add button and then begin the next figure. Some of those are very rare
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Posted by Little Sister
That's an antique adding machine. I'm trying to think of how to word this so it's understandable lol... There are no zeros because you enter each of the figures one at a time. Say you were trying to get 6098... You'd press the "6" in the thousands column, you would press no button at all in the hundreds, "9" in the tens and "8" in the ones. Then you press the add button and then begin the next figure. Some of those are very rare
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Each number button stays depressed until you lock it in and start the next number.
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Posted by Little Sister
That's an antique adding machine. I'm trying to think of how to word this so it's understandable lol... There are no zeros because you enter each of the figures one at a time. Say you were trying to get 6098... You'd press the "6" in the thousands column, you would press no button at all in the hundreds, "9" in the tens and "8" in the ones. Then you press the add button and then begin the next figure. Some of those are very rare
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You beat me. It's technically called a comptometer, and it is indeed an adding machine
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That's really cool, thanks guys. Now I want to go back and see if it still works.
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Yup, as previously said it's a comptometer. More or less the great-great-grandaddy of modern calculators. They're actually really cool old pieces of kit if you like looking into old mechanical stuff.
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I remember at school there was an adding machine like that one in one of the drama rooms as a prop. I never remember seeing it in us, but did have an experimental press of the keys. If felt very heavy, like an old typewriter.
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Posted by Richard Davies I remember at school there was an adding machine like that one in one of the drama rooms as a prop. I never remember seeing it in us, but did have an experimental press of the keys. If felt very heavy, like an old typewriter.
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It probably had tons of heavy gears inside to make it work.
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Who the fuck remembers the inconvenience and fuckery of the card catalog?
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