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Now I really feelin old, I've got two Picketts and a bamboo Post. Slide rule 101, the fall of 1968, Milwaukee School of Engineering.
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Now I really feelin old, I've got two Picketts a yellow and a white one and a bamboo Post. Slide rule 101, the fall of 1968, Milwaukee School of Engineering. The textbook we used for the class had a lot of very useful formulas in the back. Especially for finding the volume of different shapes, which came in useful for figuring the volumes of different sections of 2 stroke expansion chambers on 3 cylinder two stroke kawasaki's
In case anyone is interested the book is THE SLIDE RULE AND ITS USE IN PROBLEM SOLVING by George Beakley and H. W. Leach |
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Arfcom millennials won't have a clue http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/a7/8f/04/a78f049c1640b5bcd594d94ac5a9b8e4.jpg View Quote |
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I still have mine. For the first year of college we were not allowed to use those "new" electronic calculators. http://m8.i.pbase.com/u45/terry_56/upload/34645608.Slip_Stick1.jpg View Quote Still have it and still use it when designing vacuum tube circuits for my ham radio station. Somehow it just seems the right thing to do. Besides, keeping track of the decimal point helps to blow the cobwebs out of the gray matter. |
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Fun tidbit. When my wife's grandfather (who was a NASA engineer during the Gemini program and remained close friends with Gene Cernan) died, we cleaned out his office and found his slide rule. It looked like hieroglyphics to me, but I knew what it was. I hope I get it when my FIL passes. I may even try to figure out how to use it and pass it along to our son. View Quote |
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View Quote It might be time to remodel. |
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My current vanity has one. It might be time to remodel. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
My current vanity has one. It might be time to remodel. |
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The accessory [working] radio backpack was the shit!
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View Quote For those of you that don't know, back in the day when most men shaved with a safety razor you needed a way to safely dispose of the razor. The simple solution was for medicine cabinets to have this little slot that you could simply drop the used blade into. That way you didn't have to worry about cutting the trash bag or your hands when taking out the trash. Where did the razor go? How did you clean them out? Great Questions! The razors ended up behind the medicine cabinet or at the bottom of the stud wall and you simply didn't worry about getting them out. |
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The Wang 370 desk calculator. It used a Nixie tube readout. http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/a-wang370-6802.jpg https://asianpeach.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/nixie-tube.jpg View Quote |
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The Wang 370 desk calculator. It used a Nixie tube readout. http://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/a-wang370-6802.jpg https://asianpeach.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/nixie-tube.jpg View Quote We upgraded to more modern tech, got a bunch of readouts and tubes. Maybe I'll build a clock. |
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Did anyone else use ledger books, or those old adding machines in their jobs ? View Quote All our accounting is done by hand in a ledger book with an adding machine. In fact, by far our most intensive use of computers is for dicking around online when we're bored. A.W.D. |
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I still have one of those. Just don't know if you can still get film for it. View Quote I bought several packs. It works fine. |
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https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/22677/image-207850.JPG It's Still a useful item. Anybody? View Quote |
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View Quote But the bindings (Salomon 444) on my old 1970s Fischer skis look just as dated nowadays. |
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Not really any pics, but remember how to shift an old Volkswagen into reverse?
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I still have one of those. Just don't know if you can still get film for it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Hint: It's not a fancy flask. http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1337/8025/products/polaroid_sx_70_leather_skin01_1024x1024.JPG?v=1479234571 $23 for a single pack. |
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I am posting from an A&W drive in with updated version of those.
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How many remember phone#s like this? These are from our local phone book circa 1960. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/78788/1960yp2-204032.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/78788/1960yp1-204031.jpg View Quote Damn that brings back some memories. We had a party line so sometimes we had to wait until the other guy was done before we could make a call. |
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I still have the one I got for Christmas back in the 60s that I still set-up on ocassion. Attached File |
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I still have one of those cameras. Can't get film anymore. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/cb/fa/c0/cbfac025c525d207b959f9f8af0beb0a.jpg http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8d/ed/74/8ded7467e76cc3405e72060046b36bfe.jpg http://www.brooklynvegan.com/files/2016/03/super-elastic-bubble-plastic1.jpg http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-EI168_KNUCKL_G_20140829165653.jpg http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ed/a0/a5/eda0a52b95370a53975b68d719525882.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2598709876_ab1dcfbc56_o.jpg http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/96/e7/00/96e70033216bb4448a820d17cfaeea1a.jpg In case you want to check out some of what's involved: minolta 16, slitting film ETA: I can't seem to bring myself to throw mine out. I just might start putting things together for rainy-day project #3602. |
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