Veronica
Virginia
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jlg35 wrote:I don't know about your part of the country but up here the days of Drive-In Movies are gone.
We went to one last night...double feature with Horton Hears a Who and Jumper. We took our lawn chairs, sleeping bags, blankets and the dog and enjoyed a movie under the stars. It was chilly, but we had a blast. There are two around here. The one we go to has just been placed on the National Historic Registry.
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DoubleClutcher
Ridgcrest,CA
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kjames90755 wrote:Anyone say "Using a slide rule" yet? Was shown one once, but the owner couldn't explain to me how to use it...
I still have 3 slide rules. I tried one a few weeks ago and it still works! No dead batteries, no software update, just worked.
Here is a funny one though. I learned to use a slide rule from my father when I was 14. Took it to school once and caught hell for cheating. Was told it would destroy my mind not calculation by hand. Fast forward to my 50's when I taught electronics at Idaho State University. We had a very heated meeting about changing over to the use of calculators from slide rules in the department. Several old timers felt that it would destroy the students ability to think. Before I left there 5 years later the same discussion was held about allowing the students to use a computer rather than a calculator. Same argument. What's next?
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fireman93514
Bishop CA
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Happy Harry wrote:How abouy going back to around 1944 when my mother use to let me break the little "yellow" plastic pouch and mix it into the"Oleo Margarine"
Harry
Boy I completly forgot about that one. I did have fun with that.
How about lunch at McDonalds and change back fron a dollar.
How about the old marchant calculators with about a hundred keys. We thought we were really something when we got a ten key machine.
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DoubleClutcher
Ridgcrest,CA
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How about backing a TT into a spot?
Or as my forum name implies: Double clutching a non syncro transmission.
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dave54
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kjames90755 wrote:Anyone say "Using a slide rule" yet? Was shown one once, but the owner couldn't explain to me how to use it...
LOL!!! Still have mine. In a drawer or closet somewhere...
The warehouseman where I used to work was cleaning out some old storage bins where he found a large 4' slide rule. The kind teachers used to use in front of the whole classroom to teach its use. He thought it was kinda cool and retro so he hung it on the wall above the doorway to his office. Us 'old-timers' would chuckle at the new young hires who had no idea what it was. Even after we explained what it was and how it worked they couldn't understand it.
But this thread now has me wondering... can I still paper and pencil a cube root? Manually calculate trig functions?
mmmm.... I may have to log off and see if remember how.
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wa8yxm
Wherever I happen to park
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8.1 Van wrote:
Is that a woman thing to put a small monitor a mile away and elevated like that with the keyboard down low ? My step-daughter's setup is like that and I shake my head everytime I see it.
No, it's a farsighted thing... Some folks are far sighted and /or do not have the proper prescription so they have to put the monitor at a distance so they can see it better....
It is not that I need bi-focals... I just need longer arms
Nothin adds excitment like something that is none of your business
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bsinmich
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I not only can use a manual typewriter but I still have parts in my tool box to repair some of them along with parts for Burroughs and NCR adding machiines and Comptometers. My total use of my $1500 typewriter now is to type out checks for Church. Most of my bills are paid online and the only checks I have made this year are to the dentist and Church.
I can remember the time when a fellow from Sharp in Japan came to our shop and was showing the first Sharp electronic calculator with Nixie Tubes for display. They sold for $3200. the same as a Friden in 1968. This fellow was telling us that soon we would be carrying a calculator in our pocket and it would only cost $10.00. Was he every wrong. I only paid $5.00 for my pocket calculator.
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sher9570
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My Dad was a project engineer for GE and everything he did was on a drafting table with all sorts of tools, do they even exist anymore???
Sher
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alleghany nf camper
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My 10 year old was going to the library the other day so I told him to look in the card catalog for the book My side of the Mountain because its a good book and he would enjoy it. He looked at me like I had lost my mind and said "What is a card catalog?" I asked how they find a book they want and he said you just type the title in the computer and it tells you where it is(guess it's been a while since I've been to the library.)
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mowermech
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How long has it been since they taught Palmer Method Penmanship in the schools?
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