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- From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier)
- Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.programming
- Subject: Re: Bought a computer, with no manual
- Message-ID: <2960.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 11:45:08 GMT
- References: <1jsohjINN8jd@sol.tis.com>
- Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory
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- X-Local-Date: Monday, 25th January 1993 at 11:44am GMT
- Originator: imc@msc3.comlab
-
- In article <1jsohjINN8jd@sol.tis.com>, mjr@tis.com (Marcus J Ranum) wrote:
- > Anyone out there got any references for how to use an abacus?
-
- An encyclopaedia? :-)
-
- > 5 buttons in each row, and a 6th separated from the rest
- >with a bar.
- > Presumably the 6th button is some kind of mode-of-the-5 buttons
- >button. I'm guessing that if it's up or down it means there's some kind
- >of multiplier in effect?
-
- It counts for an *addition* of 5 (which is what you meant, right?). In
- other words the abacus is a decimal device which, instead of having 10
- units for each digit, has 5 units and a five so as to be less clumsy.
-
- Ian Collier
- Ian.Collier@prg.ox.ac.uk | imc@ecs.ox.ac.uk
- >--
- > "guns don't die. people do."
- ^^^
- 'Scuse me for asking, but shouldn't this say "kill"? I believe Bill Hicks
- is one of the people to have said this.
-