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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