Weird to think that only 1,700 people have seen this video. It's fantastic! I'm glad to be one of the lucky few.

@chriswalford4161

8 ай бұрын

7558 now - December 2023. I would have expected it to boil over during Covid boredom.

I laughed out loud with the end of the video. haha Your videos are great!

@ChrisStaecker

6 жыл бұрын

"great" don't pay the bills!

You are the Indiana Jones for the idea beneath the surface of things, and I love the way you say Spee---DEE 😁😊 ! Thanks for your efforts!

honestly an adding machine stream would be really fun. you could have people donate to insert numbers into your queue or otherwise change the arithmetic you're doing. do a mix of problems so that you can show off different machines, etc.

@shoofle

2 жыл бұрын

i don't think it'd bring in big numbers but it would be a fun community stream if you've got some friends to hang out in chat with

@LillithMK

8 ай бұрын

if u were a really big twitch streamer that gets a lotta donations you could have a bit in a special stream where you have a guy in a corner constantly adding up the donations like in a telethon

Unbelievable that you don't have a million subs.

@aviphysics

2 жыл бұрын

You just got a mention of episode 101 of the "Well There's Your Problem" podcast.

Assuming this was also sold in Japan under a different brand, the "numbers only up to five" thing was probably extremely intuitive to a generation raised on Japanese abaci

Are used to work in the design department at a grammar school. If I had one of these I think I would have to have removed the mechanism as you did and make a transparent Perspex case for it as an example of complex mechanisms.

Finally got myself one of these. Alas, one set of keys sticks, so I’ll be taking advantage of the ease of disassembly.

Mmmmm. Those dark buttons.

Chris you are amazing

I’ve been watching hours of these videos and it’s legit costing me money

Simulating this with an ortholinear keyboard and some code could be a fun experiment. Representing large numbers with "chords" instead of several distinct inputs reminds me of stenography.

I don't understand why your channel is not huge

Dude, I don't know how long ago the video was but I did watch someone speed run calculators. This would be amazing to have in the irl speedrunning community. I am unsure if you will see this because this video is so old now.

@ChrisStaecker

2 жыл бұрын

I don't really know anything about irl speedruns, but I would totally do this if you think people would be interested. I no longer have the Speedee Add-A-Matic, but the Comptometer would be better anyways.

@hydrius8931

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisStaecker I am absolutely sure people would enjoy, but I recommend looking into different types of speedruns and speedrunning community befor you start. The only irl speenruns I witnessed was the calculator speedrun and the pencil sharpener speed run. (Both of which from Point Crow.)

@hydrius8931

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisStaecker You might have to do it like minecraft, with a randomized map/page of questions. The Calculator is just 1+1=2 +1 +1 +1 +1... Till 100 as fast as you can.

@hydrius8931

2 жыл бұрын

It may have been SmallAnt for the speedruns, my memory may have be faulty.

So… is there less wear on the 6-9 keys on your other machines, and more on the 1-5?

I have a later variant of that Contex model, and it is very much like this Japanese clone but with a metal casing. It also has square buttons and disassembles in exactly the same way. Its bottom plate does extend underneath the keyboard though. I find it curious that the key levers are made from the same stuff as printed circuit boards.

@ChrisStaecker

6 жыл бұрын

Very interesting- I suspected that this was an exact knockoff of something but I could never find the precise "original". Thanks as always for your knowledge-

I love these videos and I'm glad you're still adding to the series. Maybe there are some movies or old tv shows showing a pro using these machines?

@ChrisStaecker

6 жыл бұрын

I think there may be, but I haven't seen it. The key driven machines seem to have gone out of style around the 1950s, so it would have to be pretty old. I've seen some old Burroughs films with their machines, but it's a different type and I think less skilled than the Comptometer types.

@Jeffrey314159

6 жыл бұрын

Alot of Warner Bros and Loony Tunes animated shorts feature these comptometers: Like when Bugs Bunny demonstrates how good rabbits are at multiplying :-)

The sound effects you are using here sound like those that were used in a 1965 grade B film: WIZARD OF MARS

@ChrisStaecker

6 жыл бұрын

Nice- stock iMovie & GarageBand all the way

This dude predicted calculator for Nintendo switch

420 likes after 6 years. Nice.

As you were starting to unscrew the back, I was shouting at the screen, "Don't do it! You'll void the warranty!"

0:28 The keys look like chocolates.

@ChrisStaecker

2 жыл бұрын

don't get any ideas