Addo X 5000 Mod. 5341-50.

Addo X 5000 Mod. 5341-50.

The Addo X 5000 Mod. 5341-50 is an electromechanical accounting machine manufactured in Malmö, Sweden, by Addo AB in the early 1960s.

The Addo-X 341 series machines were electrically driven book-keeping calculators equipped with a ten-key keypad, function keys arranged around the keypad. The Model 5341 is an improved version of the earlier 341 model, featuring a wide, typewriter-style carriage for paper sheets in addition to the standard paper-roll printing option. The carriage offered four-way tabulation capabilities. The Model 5341 also allowed the user to choose between vertical or horizontal working procedures when using wide-carriage paper instead of a paper roll. The model 5341 had two variants - the 5341-50 had rear paper feeding option, 5341-60 was a front feed version.

This machine has a distributor’s tag in front of the case, Turun Systema Oy, an office machine supplier in the city of Turku, Finland. The “-Systema” suffix was widely used by Finnish office supply companies, a tradition dating back to the early 1920s.

Registers: 10 x 11

Year of manufacture: 1960

Serial №: B76501

Manufacturer:
	Aktiebolaget Addo Malmö, Sweden

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Aktiebolaget Addo (AB Addo), founded in 1918, was an engineering company based in Malmö, Sweden. The company manufactured various types of office machines. Addo Ab was founded by Swedish dentist Hugo Agrell, who was later joined by his three sons, Gunnar, Göran, and Trygve. While Gunnar and Göran helped their father in Malmö, Trygve Agrell was sent to the United States in 1950 to establish and manage Addo Machine Co., Inc. in New York. The company expanded rapidly, having its factories in Brazil and in the UK, in addition to the six factories in Sweden. Production was exported to 100 countries worldwide. In 1966, Addo AB was incorporated into its competitor Facit AB (AB Åtvidabergs Industrier), where it remained as a subsidiary until the early 1980s. Addo products consisted mainly of adding machines, calculators, accounting machines, and data processing equipment.

Source: Source: Büromarkt. Internationale Bürofachzeitschrift, 1956, Nr. 4