On 22 Jun 2004, at 20:27, Steve Thatcher wrote:
Hi, this could have been a Monroe machine.
Here is a link to the 1655 (although I think the card reader was
actually optical, it was punch-out chad based though)
http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/a-monroe1655.html
I used one of these in High school (1969-71) and I managed to snag one
on eBay a few years ago with the card reader, manual, etc. The fun
thing was that the nixie displays were direct outputs from the
registers that did the calculating, so they would be flickering away
whenever you did some calculations until it finally displayed the
result.
I am not sure if Monroe had other models at the time.
Well if it was a Monroe it was different to this one. I recall it being
much larger with a metal, angular blue case.
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