Oh my. I'm happy to see this again, I may only be about, 13, but when I was 8 I had one of these, I also had a kingson pocket calculator, and a punch card reader, I was very facinated with old calculators and how to use them, and I still have my kingson, it has served my well, it doesn't look like a calculator to the teachers, but 8f you know hi to use it, it helps you cheat, a lot, and the ruler on the back of the kingson works for multiplication, it's ever so well, aint it?
I had something like this in the 1970s and I loved it. I thought at the time that it was a genius piece of kit. I love all things mechanical anyway, and long for those days again. Now, everything is just too easy.
@@MattMcIrvin Exactly, that's why it's a shame that an abacuses with semi-automatic carry mechanisms weren't invented sooner. It's such a simple idea and easy to come up with that it probably popped into someone's head at least a century earlier but they didn't build it. Maybe because everyone who did think of that idea thought that someone else already thought of it and no one built it.
I am SICK beyond reason. I used to have my Grandfather's thing like this, which worked in £ -s- d ... even down to 1/4d (Farthings). It "died" and was jettisoned . I WISH I'd had sense to keep it. Can't find anything as old on TH-cam. :¬(
I remember these being sold in dime stores in the 1970s, even after electronic calculators had emerged.
I had one of these in the 70's, until I got an electronic calculator for my birthday. I still remember this very well, how cool this device is!
Oh my. I'm happy to see this again, I may only be about, 13, but when I was 8 I had one of these, I also had a kingson pocket calculator, and a punch card reader, I was very facinated with old calculators and how to use them, and I still have my kingson, it has served my well, it doesn't look like a calculator to the teachers, but 8f you know hi to use it, it helps you cheat, a lot, and the ruler on the back of the kingson works for multiplication, it's ever so well, aint it?
I had something like this in the 1970s and I loved it. I thought at the time that it was a genius piece of kit. I love all things mechanical anyway, and long for those days again. Now, everything is just too easy.
W Leon oddomization takes the fun out of technology.
Exactly.
Slide rules are also really cool
OMG...I had one of these when I was 10. I loved it. Mine had a different designed case but worked just like this. I used it for a long time.
Very cool. Wouldn't mind having one, just to wow the nieces and nephews with.
Thank you! I found an example that added up pounds, shillings and pence, so now I know how it works!
thank you from manhattan
I remember using these. But I could also add very quickly on green sheets, and I learned subtraction without borrowing.
The "red" in the columns is to tell you to push up instead of down.
Robert Lozyniak yeah, he knows that....
I have one now,I like it.Thanks for the video.
I love how it simply consists of a paternoster style gear set lol
Wow! Nifty. Thank you. 👌🏾
I have one still. It was my parents'. If I only remember which box it's in...
Pls tell me the price of this one
They seem to be about $20 on eBay.
It's a shame and an enigma that it wasn't invented decades earlier.
It's essentially an abacus, except that there's also a semi-automatic carry mechanism.
@@MattMcIrvin Exactly, that's why it's a shame that an abacuses with semi-automatic carry mechanisms weren't invented sooner. It's such a simple idea and easy to come up with that it probably popped into someone's head at least a century earlier but they didn't build it. Maybe because everyone who did think of that idea thought that someone else already thought of it and no one built it.
Thank you!
Those Germans! So efficient!
chesucat based on a French concept and design actually
Impressive.
Tengo una de estas, que esta montada al reverso de una regla de calculo, es bella.
Good clip.
wow that is so Beautiful 😲
무엇에 쓰는 물건인고?!😢
hold still plz
You also left out how to use the clearing bar.
I am SICK beyond reason. I used to have my Grandfather's thing like this, which worked in £ -s- d ... even down to 1/4d (Farthings).
It "died" and was jettisoned . I WISH I'd had sense to keep it.
Can't find anything as old on TH-cam.
:¬(
Graet!
That thing looks awful to use in comparison to working the problem out by hand. No thank you.
Ana abbacus is more practical
No
Good clip.