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Subj: The Comptograph
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An adventure that came perilously close to dooming both Felt & Tarrant
and the Comptometer, this "impossible dream" would occupy the talents
of Felt for the better part of 15 long years. During this period, Felt
and Burroughs engaged in lengthy and costly legal disputes about the
various patents.
The difficulties involved in combining a key-driven design with a
printing mechanism proved such a challenge that the machine had
virtually no impact on the market for adding machines.
J.A.V.Turck devotes some 40% of his book to a minute examination of
the design of the Comptograph, the Burroughs adding/listing machine
and their predicessors in a rather obvious bid to establish Felt's
precidence in "the art". It is probably true that Felt's design had
features that were superior to the Burroughs machine but that
hardly mattered in the final reckoning as the incompatability of
key-driven and listing technologies proved insurmountable.
73 Scott KF5JRV
KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA
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