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What is a comptometer?

What is a comptometer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A mechanical or electromechanical calculator; an adding machine without a crank, driven instead by keypress.
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The 66-year-old, from Spital in Wirral, has owned the items since 1962 when she was a 15-year-old trainee comptometer operator who went to lunchtime sessions at the Cavern.
Before the advent of the computer I worked a manual Comptometer machine, the keys of which had to be pounded.
After the war, Rita was a comptometer operator at Hintons in Middlesbrough.
They do not even attempt to train salesmen and saleswomen, index and statistical clerks, 317 comptometer operators, etc.
Gunnie attended Holden High School and graduated from Commerce High School in 1938 and later graduated from Felt Tarrant Comptometer School in Worcester.
I had signed up with an employment agency and was sent to Southalls in Alum Rock to work on an addressograph machine in the comptometer room.

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