I remember when my dad purchased a Bowmar Brain when it hit the market.Originally Posted by rdtompki
I want that font!
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”But in the end all of these ideas just manufacture new criminals when the problem isn't a lack of criminals.” -JRB
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I still have my slide rule from college. How does it work? Had one of those HP-12C Polish notation calculators. Work bought it for me as it could do matrix manipulations and stat functions. We soon moved to using computer stat programs. Now it turn out that the stat functions were not hardware but programmed. I gave it to my 4 year old to play with. She managed to undo and clear all the programming. The math functions worked but no stat. I took it to the pawn shop (school said it was mine). The Iranian guy said he would give me $15.00 (a steal!) but he called up a guy to test it. So he had a conversation in Persian. They ran some math tests - but no stat tests. Got my bucks.
As an aside about Reverse Polish Notation - I was taking a graduate course in machine architecture and assembly language. I was running a solid A average. The final project was to write a complier in assembly language for a CDC 6400 (a supercomputer for its time) for reverse Polish Notation math with your own I/O in a different assembly language for a peripheral CPU that did such. Not a trivial project. But wait - Nixon bombed Cambodia, and we erupted in full scale riots and shut down. The prof said we could take our average grade up to then or write the project. Not a hard decision.
This was the same class I've mentioned before when a project mate back from Viet Nam picked up a graduate student who gave us crap for using a restricted memory location in a program - you call yourself CS students.Ha! Pinned him to the wall and said that he didn't walk through the jungles to take crap. I mentioned that the prof seems to want to help us and he did. My mate later told the grad student that he might blow him up. Those were the days.
Slide rule is on a shelf next to a vampire stake I made from a oak branch, just in case.
I still have mine. But what the hell, the E6B and the Jepp CR-3 are circular slide rules.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
Ken
BBI: ...”you better not forget the safe word because shit's about to get weird”...
revchuck38: ...”mo' ammo is mo' betta' unless you're swimming or on fire.”
We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell stories that don't go anywhere. Like the time I caught the ferry to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days nickels had pictures of bumble bees on them. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... Oh yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt at the time. You couldn't get white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
no one sees what's written on the spine of his own autobiography.
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