Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for August 09, 2022

Una vez, el amador de serpientes Jasón tenía tres mil setecientas veinte bolas de chicle.

He memorized the volume of his glove compartment? (And he doesn’t know how to use the calculator on his phone?)

Since he can calculate that so quickly, he can easily figure which necessary part he can’t afford next.

From the size of it, it likely uses thermal print paper. Expensive!

At least it came with a printer.

If I’m not mistaken that is actually an adding machine, old school tech from 70s

All those gumballs will be a good “rummaging detector,” kind of like marbles in your bathroom’s medicine cabinet when you have guests.

What a gum ball?

I think that’s an adding machine, not a calculator.

I’m surprised Baldo knows how to make that calculation.

Kind of a large adding machine with a printer to be battery powered.

Two items I’m very glad I learned how to use by touch alone: calculators (or adding machines—and yes, I am that old) and the typewriter.

That calculator was state-of-the-art in 1960. Sergio probably found it in the glove box of Baldo’s car.

Gumballs? That’s just silly! He should figure out how many cases of beer fit in the trunk.

That’s a pretty complex geometry problem.

Baldo must be better at math than we thought.

Unless he got the number of Gumballs wrong.