Monroe electromechanical calculators

[Dwight K. Elvey]

>From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
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>Regarding Sellam's squirrels, there's just no access to the innards of
>the machine from the bottom or sides with the case on - the vents in the
>base were too small for the acorn to even get in. I don't remember there
>being sufficient room at the top around the carriage either, but I can't
>check that until I put the case back on. I'm having fun concoting a
>story where someone got the machine for cheap / free because it was
>broken - when it was they who'd planted the nut in there, being able to
>blame it on animals if it happened to be discovered :-)
>
Hi Jules
 It might be that the cover was off when the acorn got in there.
Dwight