09-08-2018, 05:32 PM
The first electronic calculator I ever saw was when I went to work for The Stock Exchange in September 1969.
As well as the Cable TV system I went to work on, a computerised paging system and a 4,000 line PABX also came under our department's remit.
The Stock Exchange Council, in their wisdom, had decreed that the annual fee for each of these services was to be charged on a daily basis for any period which didn't coincide with the Stock Exchange accounting year.
As all three services went live 44 days before the end of the year, the problems that caused started from day one, hence the electronic calculator!
It cost around £400 and was the only one in the organisation - the Finance Department used to beg a loan of it for a couple of days at the end of each accounting month!
As well as the Cable TV system I went to work on, a computerised paging system and a 4,000 line PABX also came under our department's remit.
The Stock Exchange Council, in their wisdom, had decreed that the annual fee for each of these services was to be charged on a daily basis for any period which didn't coincide with the Stock Exchange accounting year.
As all three services went live 44 days before the end of the year, the problems that caused started from day one, hence the electronic calculator!
It cost around £400 and was the only one in the organisation - the Finance Department used to beg a loan of it for a couple of days at the end of each accounting month!
