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> In 1902, the Dalton went on to become one of the most popular 10-key adding machines of the time, rendering multi-column calculators obsolete.

Multi-column calculators survived much longer, being king of the hill for high-accuracy multiplication and division. I had a job using one until the end of 1969.




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