Andy Fletcher

I had a someone come into the office from one of our suppliers this morning. Whilst she was there she saw a printing calculator in a display cabinet and really couldn't understand what it was.

I remember seeing and using them back in the 1980s. I'm really getting too old!

#calculator #retro #office

Apr 13 at 8:52amWeb
Show threadEmsquared1d ago
@X31Andy. My Dad had kept so many of these before he passed in. I remember him doing money taken type reckoning on them and it would print every entry a line at a time right after you'd entered it so you could go back and check them off manually.
Clunky things. Built like tanks.
Show threadAegir1d ago
@X31Andy I loved these. I lose track of numbers so quickly, and these things show that yes, I did type them all in correctly. (I use Soulver now, cos it’s basically the digital equivalent)
Show threadAndy Fletcher1d ago
@aegir yeah, I normally use a spreadsheet for these sort of things these days unless it is trig heavy then I use a physical calculator :)
Show threadAlfred Chow - Maker of Things1d ago

@X31Andy
In the early 1970s, as a child, I helped my Mum in her shop. She used a mechanical printing calculator to tot up the shop's takings at the end of each day.

It was an Olivetti Prima 20.

https://public.beuth-hochschule.de/~hamann/olivetti/o-add/index2.html

OLIVETTI SUMMA PRIMA 20