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- From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
- Subject: Re: Swedish Adding Machine -- Help Wanted
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.052436.19388@news.columbia.edu>
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- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <PCL.92Nov19174841@black.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:24:36 GMT
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- In article <PCL.92Nov19174841@black.oxford.ac.uk> pcl@oxford.ac.uk (Paul Leyland) writes:
- >
- >Last weekend, I acquired a wind-up mechanical adding machine. It is
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- >"Multo" (in a flowing script and underlined) and "ADDO" (in smaller
- >capitals). On another panel are some partially erased words. The
- >best I can make them out is: "A.B. <obliterated, maybe 4-6
- >characters> MALMO MADE IN SWEDEN". There is a umlaut over the O of
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- This sounds like it was made by a unit of the FACIT company.
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- cjl
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