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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: adeline B on Thursday 29 March 12 23:47 BST (UK)
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Where would a person receive training on how to use a comptometer in Australia during the 1950's.
Adeline B
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At a business school?
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wolff/calculators/comptometers/Operator.htm
Jamjar
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Wow, my wife saw one in a Museum, it made her feel like an antique herself. ;D
As the OH was a comp operator she went to Burroughs the manufacturer. They did training up to and into the 1960's.
Neil
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Operators were called comptometrists, were they not, Neil?
Jamjar
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Yeh, married a comptometrist, thought she could check my vision ;D
I call her something else now ;D ;D ;D ;D.
No trists now :o
Burroughs has a great site via Mr Google. 8)
Neil
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Funny. ;D
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I was a comptometrist when working for an insurance company in the '60's.We were trained on the job.
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Suggest a search for Comptometer (and Comptompter) in Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
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I used to work for a Comptometer and Tabulator company - I was working on "Desktop Programmable Calculators"!
The comptometer department were trained on the job.
The comptometers used were glorified adding machines (or at least they were to my young eyes!!) ;D