AB Addo
Encyclopedia
AB Addo was a former Swedish
engineering company which manufactured office machines. The company, based in Malmö
, was founded in 1918. In 1966 it was incorporated into Facit
, where it remained as a subsidiary until the early 1980s. Its products consisted mainly of adding machines, calculator
s, accounting machine
s, and data processing equipment.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
engineering company which manufactured office machines. The company, based in Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
, was founded in 1918. In 1966 it was incorporated into Facit
Facit
Facit was an industrial corporation and manufacturer of office products. It was based in Åtvidaberg, Sweden, and founded in 1922 as AB Åtvidabergs Industrier. Facit AB, a manufacturer of mechanical calculators, was incorporated into the corporation the same year...
, where it remained as a subsidiary until the early 1980s. Its products consisted mainly of adding machines, calculator
Calculator
An electronic calculator is a small, portable, usually inexpensive electronic device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic. Modern calculators are more portable than most computers, though most PDAs are comparable in size to handheld calculators.The first solid-state electronic...
s, accounting machine
Accounting Machine
An accounting machine, or bookkeeping machine or recording-adder, was generally a calculator and printer combination tailored for a specific commercial activity such as billing, payroll, or ledger...
s, and data processing equipment.