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- From: tomk@pyton.DoCS.UU.SE (Tom F Karlsson)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,sci.math,rec.antiques
- Subject: Re: Swedish Adding Machine -- Help Wanted
- Date: 20 Nov 92 12:29:55
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden.
- Lines: 27
- Message-ID: <TOMK.92Nov20122955@pyton.DoCS.UU.SE>
- References: <PCL.92Nov19174841@black.oxford.ac.uk>
- <1992Nov20.052436.19388@news.columbia.edu>
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- In-reply-to: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 05:24:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.052436.19388@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
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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
- >
- >
- > >"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
- >
- > This sounds like it was made by a unit of the FACIT company.
-
- Could be. I have a FACIT of my own, and I think it can be similar to the
- above mentioned machine. Sad to say, I don't have neither manuals nor
- spare parts for it.
-
- /Tom
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