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I know I'm old because I finally no longer have a craving for a manual transmission. I drove stick most of my life. Even when the 8 speed ZFs came in a changed the game, I still hated not having a stick around, even though performance and efficiency leans toward the AT.
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The instructions when I went in for an amateur radio license upgrade test a few years ago said that test-takers could use slide rules or basic non-scientific calculators, so I dug out my slide rule and used it. The older farts proctoring the test were whispering among themselves in approval, and the younger folks in the room were probably dumbfounded seeing someone actually use the *analog* scientific calculator that put men on the moon.....
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Ooooo...great idea. I could even run for president!
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I can remember back in the late '70s torture-testing TI calculators by having them calculate the value of 69! (69 factorial, so 1x2x3x4...x69). It was the largest calculation that a 10-digit calculator would do. I recall it taking several seconds on the first ones that were capable of doing it. Later on, they got faster. I can remember the first graphing calculators getting lots of "ooos" and "ahhhs."
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Yeah, the term "ear muff" has taken on a new meaning for me in the last 10 years or so.
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I can relate to all of these.....
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When you were born, your parents took you home from the hospital in a box. On the box the hospital wrote your name, DOB, weight and height in inches. My grandmother kept the boxes under her bed and used them for storage.
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Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious Because #disneysungalongathome on Sunday night
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In our high school the "computer lab" consisted of two huge terminals that looked like typewriter/dot-matrix-printer combos that were connected to the mainframe over in the other high school in town. You could feed a tape through to program it, or you could write your own program. We thought we were so cool because we could get it to spit out x, x-squared, square root of x, and x-cubed. Ah, small victories. I miss them.
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in HS using punch cards. Computer was actually across the state at a state university. Two rules: - don't drop the stack of punch cards - don't program so that the software gets into a loop. If you did, the teacher had to call the university and have them restart the computer - wrecking the projects of every other HS and college student running their projects at the time. Only happened once that I know of, and wasn't me in the hot seat. |
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Sunday night dinner on the TV trays watching the Wonderful World of Disney. Usually pot roast, but on occasion dad would insist on Swanson TV dinner, I thought they were pretty good but could never figure out what the "gasoline on water" colour was on the roast beef.
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