I fudged. I went to my Webster's Fourth edition Collegiate Dictionary published 2002 and found No definition for, "Comptometer." But I found the rascal in my 1958 Webster's Encyclopedia of dictionaries. Who would have thought they had such modern devices way back then?----Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: G STOLTMAN<mailto:stopan@msn.com> To: mo-stlouis-metro<mailto:mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 9:59 PM Subject: Re: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Obsolete occupation Hi Bob I'm just old enough to remember those old clunkers. I used to do some part-time actuary work for a now defunct insurance company - Great West Life - in Clayton. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Doerr Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 4:28 PM To: mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com<mailto:mo-stlouis-metro@rootsweb.com> Subject: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Obsolete occupation Hi A not-so-old occupation that has become obsolete and is likely to be forgotten, is that of Comptometer operator. Operators' fingers would fly! Probably, half the population has never heard of a Comptometer. Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks Sole surviving founding officer, Missouri Chapter, Nature Conservancy, 1956 http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/missouri/<http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/missouri/> Editor, since 1992, Missouri State Genealogical Association Journal http://www.mosga.org<http://www.mosga.org/> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:MO-STLOUIS-METRO-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message