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Title: COMPTOMETER
Post by: adeline B on Thursday 29 March 12 23:47 BST (UK)
Where would a person receive training on how  to use a comptometer in Australia during the 1950's.

Adeline B
Title: Re: COMPTOMETER
Post by: Jamjar on Friday 30 March 12 00:02 BST (UK)
At a business school?

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~wolff/calculators/comptometers/Operator.htm

Jamjar
Title: Re: COMPTOMETER
Post by: Neil Todd on Friday 30 March 12 00:07 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: COMPTOMETER
Post by: Jamjar on Friday 30 March 12 00:12 BST (UK)
Operators were called comptometrists, were they not, Neil?

Jamjar
Title: Re: COMPTOMETER
Post by: Neil Todd on Friday 30 March 12 00:24 BST (UK)
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
Title: Re: COMPTOMETER
Post by: Jamjar on Friday 30 March 12 00:26 BST (UK)
Funny.  ;D
Title: Re: COMPTOMETER
Post by: franh1946 on Friday 30 March 12 09:49 BST (UK)
I was a comptometrist when working for an insurance company in the '60's.We were trained on the job.
Title: Re: COMPTOMETER
Post by: ShaunJ on Friday 30 March 12 10:07 BST (UK)
Suggest a search for Comptometer (and Comptompter) in Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
Title: Re: COMPTOMETER
Post by: KGarrad on Friday 30 March 12 10:13 BST (UK)
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