Can't think of the word - help needed

conrad (e2 Member)

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4 Jul 2011 - 1:38 PM

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Hello everyone, can you help?

I just can't think what something is called. Remember old-fashioned calculators or adding machines? Some had a roll of paper, and your calculations would appear on that paper, that would come out of the machine.

What do you call that paper? In Dutch we call it, translated, an 'adding roll', but I don't think that works in English.

Does anyone know the correct term?

conrad (e2 Member)

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4 Jul 2011 - 1:49 PM

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He he, I'll try that, thanks!

conrad (e2 Member)

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4 Jul 2011 - 1:54 PM

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I needed it to find a freeware calculator program that shows all my input, and searching for "calculator roll" on download.com seems to have worked, so thanks!

conrad (e2 Member)

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5 Jul 2011 - 8:18 AM

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Ah, interesting term - quite ancient in the field of calculators and adding machines. But no paper roll - unless you mean 'comptograph'... (Handy, wikipedia!)

Just Jas

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6 Jul 2011 - 8:03 PM

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From dear old Wiki:

"Patented in the USA by Dorr E. Felt in 1887, the comptometer was the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator"

We also had a room full of them - and a 'Typing Pool' Never did have a dip in it, though!

KarenFB (Junior Gallery Team)

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7 Jul 2011 - 8:03 AM

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I used a Telex Machine (for the County Council) - punching holes in a strip of paper (any errors were permanent, no tipex or delete button then!).

mikehit (e2 Member)

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7 Jul 2011 - 10:16 AM

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Even then it took the computer some time to accept changes to the passwords. In the early days if you made a mistake logging in the backspace key was recognised as a keystroke not a correction so you had to be spot on first time. Most frustrating for someone like me with lysdexic fnigers.