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  • W [email protected]

    This calculator looks like it comes with a hefty manual and has a following as devoted as vim users

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    These are pretty simple calculators, those switches on top just change how the printing happens. You can set them to print with leading decimals (eg. adding a .00 to monetary values) and alignment to make reading easier. Otherwise it's just a pretty standard calculator. Great machines, you still see them used for audits as a final hand-calculation stapled to the top of the paperwork.

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      I'll see your dual screen and raise you a Casio desktop calculator.

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      I have one of these! I actually use it at work too.

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      • W [email protected]

        This calculator looks like it comes with a hefty manual and has a following as devoted as vim users

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        And the thing needs to be fed, for power I assume. I wonder what it prefers to eat

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        • kazuyadarklight@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

          I mean this does make sense for places where you have a client and you want them to be able to see you doing the math to some degree to give an air of transparency and encourage trust.

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          Exactly, this would be totally common in small mom and pop stores or at a flea market in the age before digital payments and ubiquitous phones.

          The person is probably just young. Wait till they discover that rewinding something used to be literal.

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          • M [email protected]

            ...what do the money detector and red buttons do?..

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            The money detector button illuminates a bright UV light on the side that you can use to detect fake notes.

            No idea about the red button. I heard one reviewer say the word "computer" while pointing at it (all of the reviewers seem to be from the Philippines, a language that I sadly don't speak), but if found no other clues.

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              The money detector button illuminates a bright UV light on the side that you can use to detect fake notes.

              No idea about the red button. I heard one reviewer say the word "computer" while pointing at it (all of the reviewers seem to be from the Philippines, a language that I sadly don't speak), but if found no other clues.

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              ...i wonder if the red button has something to with sending to or clearing the public display?..

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                And the thing needs to be fed, for power I assume. I wonder what it prefers to eat

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                Cats.

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                • J [email protected]

                  I'll see your dual screen and raise you a Casio desktop calculator.

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                  It's too hard to flip upside down when you type 58008

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                  • J [email protected]

                    I'll see your dual screen and raise you a Casio desktop calculator.

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                    Make sure your spouse isn’t around to see: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/

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                    • J [email protected]

                      I'll see your dual screen and raise you a Casio desktop calculator.

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                      OMG this one brings back memories! My uncle had one in his shop, I loved the bzzzzt bzzzzt it made...

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                      • J [email protected]

                        I'll see your dual screen and raise you a Casio desktop calculator.

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                        This was the machine to count down registers at the end of every retail shift. Great little things. Training someone new on it was always a process though. A lot of people struggled with the concept of entering the sign/operation after the number.

                        [* or T]. Of course most people treated it like a regular calculator and hit 10 [+] 2 [-] 5 and then scratched their heads to find the equals.

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                          Exactly, this would be totally common in small mom and pop stores or at a flea market in the age before digital payments and ubiquitous phones.

                          The person is probably just young. Wait till they discover that rewinding something used to be literal.

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                          And when you paused something it used to start moving more.

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                            ...i wonder if the red button has something to with sending to or clearing the public display?..

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                            It might be just the power button I can't see a power button anywhere else on it and presumably you can turn these things off.

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                              And when you paused something it used to start moving more.

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                              Wait what? I grew up on VHS tapes and... What??

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                              • J [email protected]

                                I'll see your dual screen and raise you a Casio desktop calculator.

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                                i have five of these in my closet

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                                  Make sure your spouse isn’t around to see: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/

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                                  they don't have a for sale section because this might be my christmas list

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