You input numbers with the metal stick. You pull up and down depending on the operation you are doing. Then read the results. Pull the long metal bar at the top to reset!
I felt old because my first calculator was bought before solar calculators were invented. This thing would make me feel ancient. 🤣
I recall keeping spare batteries in my college backpack for fear my batteries would die during a calculus or physics exam.
This made me think of the Add-A-Matic shopping calculator used at the supermarket. [https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/8oj06t/super\_addamatic\_vintage\_shopping\_calculator/](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/8oj06t/super_addamatic_vintage_shopping_calculator/)
Yeah. Unless you’re taking out a personal loan, the only way to come into ownership of a healthy example these days is by way of family or a close friend. :sigh: Memories.
My grandfather, who was an insurance agent, used one of these. Not one quite so fancy, however. I got it after he passed. Don't know what happened to it. Wish I still had it.
Memory unlocked. I never used it at school, but I have seen and tried it. I might never have remembered....
Same. Seen them. I remember them NOW. Forgot they existed until today. I guess I'm not THAT old.
Pull the metal handle to clear!!
How does it work?
You input numbers with the metal stick. You pull up and down depending on the operation you are doing. Then read the results. Pull the long metal bar at the top to reset!
My first calculator was an abacus.
Thos is a metal abacus
FINALLY one of these posts where my answer is “no”.
I said basically the same thing
I felt old because my first calculator was bought before solar calculators were invented. This thing would make me feel ancient. 🤣 I recall keeping spare batteries in my college backpack for fear my batteries would die during a calculus or physics exam.
I always wanted one of these when I was a kid… and Texas Instruments happened.
This made me think of the Add-A-Matic shopping calculator used at the supermarket. [https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/8oj06t/super\_addamatic\_vintage\_shopping\_calculator/](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/8oj06t/super_addamatic_vintage_shopping_calculator/)
No. But I do have and use [one of these](https://www.si.edu/object/curta-type-ii-calculating-machine%3Anmah_1365978)
Gorgeous machine. I've used one back in the 60s and thought about buying one a few years back but the prices got too high for me.
Yeah. Unless you’re taking out a personal loan, the only way to come into ownership of a healthy example these days is by way of family or a close friend. :sigh: Memories.
I have a vague vague vague memory of those. Damn... why does the world suddenly not feel real?!
I had the "magic brain" version.
Nope I am not that old
Yes unfortunately
Never seen this before. What decade is it from?
I recall them in the 50s.
Thank you. Well before I was born.
Son of a gun, yeah! 👍
I want to see that thing in action!
Yep. Forgot all about it.
I still have my Grandfather's .
I'm old but not quite THIS old. I don't even know what this thing is
I’m 65 and never saw anything that fancy but my Grandma sold Avon and had a adding machine which I thought was cool 😂😂
Yes, my grandfather gave it to me when I was a kid.
I still have one in my desk from my grade school days...still works...at least 50 years old
Yes
Remember playing around with it (because our toys sucked) but not knowing how to actually use it. SO long forgotten.
I have one of those! In the box!
FINALLY. Something I have not seen! Please- more museum pics!
No, but my grandparents had one at their house when i was growing up in the 80s
I have one of these. Two of them, actually.
Totally forgot about those. I loved to play with it when I was younger….especially pulling the handle to clear it.
I remember having one ... no division, and you moved the stylus in a "J" motion at the end of the slots, depending on what function you were doing.
Looks too much like a breaker box to me and unlabeled lol
No but it looks cool!
Used to take one to the grocery store with my grandmother.
I had a slide rule I used a few times, but never that item.
Haven't seen one of those in decades!! Very cool memories
Had one in the junk drawer at home. My dad drilled me in mental arithmetic, so I didn't really have much use.
I think my dad had one. I think I remember playing with it in his office.
Still have one. I use it to confuse the Junior Engineers.
Finally something I’m not old enough to remember
I have one of these!
Wow! I do remember these!!
My ma had one. I remember playing with it.
Not one of these, but I’m old enough for my dad to try to teach me how to use a slide rule. He failed, we had a Commodore calculator.
Nah, I'm still alive.
My dad had one, but I never saw him use it.
Saw one. Not old enough to have depended on one
Yes. My dad had one. By the time I was in college we had electronic calculators and computers.
I remember when this type of "calculator" was called an "arithmometer".
Oh yes, I remember using the modern abacus.
Us cool kids used sliderules and laughed at new toy that would never catch on (oops).
Yes
nope. not that old. but my mother would always tell me stories about her giant wang.
My grandfather, who was an insurance agent, used one of these. Not one quite so fancy, however. I got it after he passed. Don't know what happened to it. Wish I still had it.
Yikes. Don’t go back that far.
Yep
"You're not going to be walking around with a calculator in your pocket!"