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  • Lautenberg describes use of Friden calculators and the Comptometer bookkeeping machine at Automatic Payrolls, as well as later punched card tabulating operations.

    Oral history interview with Frank Lautenberg 2002

  • Subjects include: Burroughs calculators and accounting machines; Burroughs competitors, especially Moon-Hopkins and Felt & Tarrant; the Comptometer; Burroughs 'marketing strategies; and the work environment at Burroughs.

    Oral history interview with Ovid M. Smith 1985

  • Cory Doctorow at 12:13 AM Saturday, Feb 12, 2011 Comptometer mechanical adding machine celebrates the joy of spending hours every day doing what spreadsheets today accomplish in an eyeblink.

    Boing Boing Cory Doctorow 2011

  • Phyllis worked as a Comptometer operator, then joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service from which she was recruited into the Y Service wireless intelligence.

    The Guardian World News 2011

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