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MaineWriter:
Calculators
I took chemistry my freshman year in college and was still using a slide rule. I was a whiz with a slide rule! Calculators came out shortly thereafter. My father bought one and as I recall, it cost $300 and it didn't do much more than basic math functions. Now calculators are given away as promotional business items.
Leslie
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 09, 2006, 09:00:19 am ---Calculators
I took chemistry my freshman year in college and was still using a slide rule. I was a whiz with a slide rule! Calculators came out shortly thereafter. My father bought one and as I recall, it cost $300 and it didn't do much more than basic math functions. Now calculators are given away as promotional business items.
Leslie
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That's what saved my ass in high school chemistry (sophomore year, 1973-74 ;D ), an early calculator. I was getting the concepts but continually screwing up the math. My dad bought one for me--I don't recall the price. All it did was add, subtract, multiply, and divide, but that was enough.
Jeff
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: David925 on October 09, 2006, 01:58:29 am ---Does anyone know a good brand of coffee maker out there? I'll buy it just as long as it doesn't piss vinegar all over the kitchen counter.
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You're so cute! I would recommend the Senseo coffeemaker that uses pods:
Senseo is a registered trademark for a coffee brewing system from Dutch companies Philips and Douwe Egberts, a subsidiary of Sara Lee Corporation. The two main characteristics of the system are its coffee pods (called pads in some countries) and its design.
He, twee vliegen in 1 klap, new coffeemaker and it's Dutch as well!
;)
saucycobblers:
I still remember my excitement when my parents bought our first VCR - a now-defunct Betamax model about the size of a small shed with massive push down levers that squeaked when you ejected the video tape out the top of the machine. Before that my only option was to watch films on TV or travel 15 miles on the bus to the nearest cinema after our little town's only cinema closed when I was small. We had a tiny video store that had a choice of about 40 films to start with, and I queued excitedly to join and take out my first video - David Lynch's 'Elephant Man'. I carried that video home like it was the most precious thing in the world, and felt just as excited pressing 'play' as I did when watching a film at the cinema and the Studio opening music started up. Going into that video store was like walking into Santa's Grotto for me in those days... ;D
Arad-3:
--- Quote from: opinionista on October 08, 2006, 01:15:56 pm ---The fax machines. I remember when everyone was in awe when the fax became trendy.
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This is still one contraption that I still can't figure out. How they send these images through telephone wires to another fax machine is beyond me. ???
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