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About
the 8125
Nearly a century has passed since Jay R.
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calculator to the business community. At the
time his vision was “to manufacture a machine
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ease and would produce the answers almost
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be simple and practically foolproof to operate,
with all factors used visible on the machine
so the operator would know the answers were
correct.” “Such a machine” thought Monroe,
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to the executive”. While it would be hard to
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standards, it was certainly a huge advance, as
all computations were performed manually at
the time.
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century of experience working directly with
America’s premier businesses. Working
directly means a Monroe sales representative
has been in virtually every business. That
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feedback to Monroe’s planning department
for improvements in future products. Those
improvements have always set the Monroe
calculator apart from all others, as no other
calculator company works directly with
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breaking features to simplify the work routinely
encountered in business. Nowhere is this
legacy more apparent than the Monroe 8125.
But the Monroe 8125 isn’t just another
functionally superior Monroe calculator. Prior
to commencing development of the 8125, we
listened carefully to our customer base. At
trade shows and during in-person meetings,
our users almost overwhelming asked us to
develop a calculator with a smaller footprint
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increasingly complex desktop environment.
Such a calculator should also retain the
functionality of our heavy-duty models and
maintain the reliability for which Monroe is well
known. With those basic criteria we added
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compelling. For that we sought the expertise
of award winning industrial designer Josh
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functionality and performance as the primary
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for the 8125 exudes clarity by blending utility,
usability, materiality and engineering. The
power of that philosophy and the depth of
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calculator of its time, the Monroe 8125.
About
the 8130X / 8145X
The Monroe
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is the beneficiary of
that century of experience working directly with
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