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04-15-2021, 06:15 PM | #2399 |
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04-15-2021, 06:53 PM | #2400 |
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I know what you mean, in this case when I told him that in the old days the store would be full of discrete components. Turn out that he has been there for about 30 years + and he also miss the the Old Good Days.
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04-15-2021, 07:31 PM | #2401 | |
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In my Engineering school, we would have a calculator speed competition between the TI brand and the HP/RPN brand where each person had to perform a fairly complex equation. Needless to say, HP with RPN came out winning every time. This is my HP 41CV programmable calculator I bought in 1979. Yes, I still have it and use it. I don't remember the price. |
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04-16-2021, 06:21 AM | #2403 |
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...when you know what his is:
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04-16-2021, 11:16 AM | #2404 | |
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At university, I had a TI-30 then moved to a TI-55. Yes. Complete nerd.
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04-16-2021, 11:17 AM | #2405 |
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04-16-2021, 11:18 AM | #2406 | |
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Our HS physics teacher called our calculators electronic slide rules!!
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04-16-2021, 11:20 AM | #2407 |
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04-16-2021, 11:32 AM | #2408 |
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04-16-2021, 11:46 AM | #2409 |
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Yes! 12 meters were used for the cup until 1987.
The pic is in Greenwich, CT a few years back. We were going out to dump some of my big bro's ashes in the Long Island Sound. "Freedom (12 meter US-30) is a 12-metre class racing yacht and winner of the 1980 America's Cup, defeating the challenging yacht Australia. Freedom was designed with an alloy rather than a wood hull by Olin Stephens and Bill Langan, and constructed at Minneford Yacht Yard. She was skippered in the Cup by Dennis Conner." |
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04-16-2021, 01:00 PM | #2410 |
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I went for a few FCC license exams a few years ago, and the test rules allowed for a basic (non-scientific) calculator or a slide rule. The three-person panel proctoring the test had a combined age older than the USA, and actually had to go verify the test rules because nobody showed up with a slide rule in years. Of course I passed, missing only one question between the two exams.....
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04-16-2021, 01:06 PM | #2411 |
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LOL, rarely ever need to, but still can!
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04-16-2021, 01:16 PM | #2412 | |
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04-16-2021, 03:40 PM | #2413 |
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Exsqueeze me? Baking powder?
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04-16-2021, 06:12 PM | #2414 |
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Your are very old when you use one of them in school...
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04-16-2021, 08:39 PM | #2415 |
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Yes.
I can also write 100 times on the blackboard, "I will not talk in class."
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04-16-2021, 11:16 PM | #2417 |
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When you stand up from your recliner and your back cracks 10 times before you can stand up straight. Oy.
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04-17-2021, 12:11 AM | #2418 |
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[QUOTE=Littlebear;27480573]Can anyone here do long division w/ pencil & paper? [/QUOT
Yes I can...thank you very much. I can also do it in my head (within reason). Now GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN WHIPPERSNAPPER!
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