crabcake said:
One of the previous occupants seems to have left this in the attic. Pretty cool! It's an old NCR cash register.
And no jokes about how it was located in the attic area off my bedroom upstairs and the irony that it has "Roses" on the front of it!
Anyone every find anything abnormal/cool in a house?
Ok I just got off the phone with my uncle. He collects watches and old mechanical stuff and deals some antique stuff. I knew he had several cash registers so I called him with the numbers in the third picture.
The "FR" Means it was manufatured in the National plant in Fresno California.
The "1" meant day shift.
The "1217" is the model number and the number of cams and spindles it had for adding. 12 cams / 17 spindles
The next digits "258" means it was built in Feb 1958.
He said if it still works and is not bound up from rust it is worth between $10,000 and $15,000 depending on the material condition.
If it is frozen up but can be repaired/restored it is worth about $5,000
He said those things are very rare because they were mechanical works of art and most cash registers had only 7 cams because the largest number in binary you can get with 3 digits is 7 and these machines used a mechanical form of binary math. A 12 cam which in binary is 1100 could do full math without having extra spindles to make "carry's" for the extra digits needed.
for Pete. You naughty boy
occasionally now. You will recover.