• wise_pancake@lemmy.caEnglish
      25·
      1 天前

      This calculator looks like it comes with a hefty manual and has a following as devoted as vim users

      • despoticruin@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        1 天前

        These are pretty simple calculators, those switches on top just change how the printing happens. You can set them to print with leading decimals (eg. adding a .00 to monetary values) and alignment to make reading easier. Otherwise it’s just a pretty standard calculator. Great machines, you still see them used for audits as a final hand-calculation stapled to the top of the paperwork.

      • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        1 天前

        And the thing needs to be fed, for power I assume. I wonder what it prefers to eat

    • FurtiveFugitive@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      19 小时前

      This was the machine to count down registers at the end of every retail shift. Great little things. Training someone new on it was always a process though. A lot of people struggled with the concept of entering the sign/operation after the number.

      Example 10+2-5 = 7 is entered into the machine as 10 [+] 2 [+] 5 [-] [* or T]. Of course most people treated it like a regular calculator and hit 10 [+] 2 [-] 5 and then scratched their heads to find the equals.

    • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 小时前

      OMG this one brings back memories! My uncle had one in his shop, I loved the bzzzzt bzzzzt it made…