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Yesterday's Office

Antique Office Equipment Collecting:
# The slide rule on a tube
# Monarch set the price
# Rema a remade Odhner
# Marchant calculators: From pinwheel to SCM
# Extensive museum exhibit in former England hospital
# The right 'stuff' displays computer history
# Darryl Rehr, the past editor of ETCetera and an antique office expert, on The History Channel
# Log this: the slide rule's an antique
# Typewriter Collectors Convention 2000
# Watching milk-measuring calibration sparks interest
# Antique Telephone Counted Among Office Fixtures
# South African's collection includes The Millionaire calculator, Thacher slide rule
# Beck Speedograph: What do you know about this duplicator?
# Telautograph Forerunner to Modern Fax
# The Photocopier: First Image from Moss, Sulfur and a Handkerchief Rubbing
# German Devotes Virtual Museum to Teleprinters
# Chicago Typewriter Owned by Shipbuilder
# Iowan Plots History of Computers
# Mimeoscope Shows early 20th-century Technology
# Early newsrooms: Light-years from dullsville
# Portrait of an Early '50s Newsroom"

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