Commentary: Adding Machines, Beads and Comptometers
Long Island Business News › January 14, 2005
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Put away the laptop, the calculator and the adding machine - and try filing your taxes using an abacus. That's right, an abacus.
We haven't always been as high-tech as we are today. Before there was accounting software, there were pocket calculators, and before that, folks donning green visors fiddled with Comptometers and adding machines.See the full content of this document
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Commentary: Adding Machines, Beads and Comptometers
Sometimes a look back makes us more appreciative of the present. So let's climb into the time machine, shall we?
Ancient historyIt's unknown exactly when the first abacus was used, but the estimate is 3000 B.C. in Asia Minor.The original calculator, the abacus consists of...See the full content of this document
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