3 Dec
2007
3 Dec
'07
3 a.m.
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 2 Dec 2007 at 19:18, Arno Kletzander wrote:
Heh...you just sent me on a journey through some of my hellboxen since I didn't
remember the name of that particular machine and I had to dig out the book where it's
in (Buchungsmaschinen, GMD Report No. 162, by Werner Lange). It has lots of pictures and
drawings about both adding machines and bookkeeping/facturing typewriters (Wahl actuator,
Burroughs-Moon-Hopkins,...) However it looks like I mixed up some stuff:
The typebox printing element depicted in the book is described as belonging to a Burroughs
Typing Sensimatic - an advertisement can be seen under ebay auction number 260181621699,
but this shows a typewriter keyboard in front of the adding machine part.
The keyboard with dual legends depicted in the book however (which I wrongly associated
with the typebox) belongs to a German Zeiss-Ikon adder from 1958, no further
classification given. The printing mechanism of this machine is described to consist of
three disks or typewheels able to print a set of 42 characters.
Greetings,
--
Arno Kletzander
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Yes, exactly that is the class of machines I
meant. There were similar
ones which printed on a platten carriage mounted behind the adding
machine body, and some of the latest electromechanical models had a
"type box" as a means of commenting the ledgers, invoices - whatever.
Could you perhaps point me at a web photo of such a machine?