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longhorn320

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« Reply #2352 on: August 16, 2023, 03:41:56 PM »
I got you all beat

I went to UT from 67 to 71 and I still remember a very large showing of the first electronic calculators

big crowd of students mesmerized watching demonstration of how they work
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« Reply #2353 on: August 16, 2023, 04:16:24 PM »
The Wild Bunch  - Damn Right,Butch and Sundance may not have murdered anyone but the rest of them seem to rack up some numbers.Unbelievable the loot the made out with


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPIhCGrgGrw
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« Reply #2354 on: August 16, 2023, 04:20:10 PM »
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« Reply #2355 on: August 16, 2023, 04:22:07 PM »
Calculators, yeah, I recall the big RPN (HP) vs algebraic (TI) controversy.

I started with an SR-10 that had exponents, but no logs.  I think it was $125 which is about $400 today?
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« Reply #2356 on: August 16, 2023, 04:38:27 PM »
I still use the HP-20S from college to this day. I liked it so much I bought two more back when they were cheap. I'm on the second one now. Probably set for life at this point.

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« Reply #2357 on: August 16, 2023, 05:30:19 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Ray Chapman Fatally Injured by Pitch to the Head (1920)
For the entirety of his Major League Baseball career, Ray Chapman was a shortstop for Cleveland. He set a team record for stolen bases that would stand for decades, but his career was tragically cut short when he was hit in the head by a pitch thrown by Yankees hurler Carl Mays. According to eyewitnesses, Chapman likely never even saw the ball. He is the only Major League Baseball player to have died as a result of an injury received in a game.
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« Reply #2358 on: August 16, 2023, 05:50:59 PM »
RIP,Chappy,Tribe won the Series that Season
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« Reply #2359 on: August 16, 2023, 05:54:51 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 16, 2023, 02:49:57 PM
We had an Apple II+ on a roller cart when I started work in 1980.  The section shared it.  It had both paper tape and a casette deck for data storage.  There was a program called Visicalc which was fairly useful, it was like an early Excel.  I wish I had bought some Apple stock back then ...
Getting an Apple II+ at work with Visicalc was exciting.  Using format code to try to get it to print out a certain way was always fun.  We also had a Wang VP with a 75mg hard drive the size of a washing machine.  We upgraded in 82 I think to a Wang VS with 2 300mg drive both about the size of a washing machine. I bought a Commodore 64 with a monitor sometime in the early 80s it used tapes to load programs and had a 300 baud modem which I used to get on Compuserve, it was AOL before AOL but everything was totally text.  I upgrade my computer with a floppy drive as soon as it was available. Early days of computer were fun. Used to be able to completely take care of just about anything. Now I don't know half of what is going on. 
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« Reply #2360 on: August 16, 2023, 05:56:55 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 16, 2023, 04:22:07 PM
Calculators, yeah, I recall the big RPN (HP) vs algebraic (TI) controversy.

I started with an SR-10 that had exponents, but no logs.  I think it was $125 which is about $400 today?
I bought an SR-50a for about $200. Had all the fun scientific functions.  
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« Reply #2361 on: August 16, 2023, 07:45:39 PM »
I have an abacus that my great-great-great grand dad brought back from the orient after getting shanqhaied - does that count?
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« Reply #2362 on: August 17, 2023, 08:49:03 AM »
Quote from: Riffraft on August 16, 2023, 05:56:55 PM
I bought an SR-50a for about $200. Had all the fun scientific functions. 
I got one my second year in college.  In HS, we had Picket Log Log metal slide rules.  I may still have that somewhere packed away.  
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« Reply #2363 on: August 17, 2023, 09:44:51 AM »
Quote from: longhorn320 on August 16, 2023, 03:41:56 PM
I got you all beat

I went to UT from 67 to 71 and I still remember a very large showing of the first electronic calculators

big crowd of students mesmerized watching demonstration of how they work
Jesus, and I say this with respect, you're really fucking old ! :72:
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2364 on: August 17, 2023, 09:49:07 AM »


A Confederate soldier stationed at Cumberland Gap in 1861 remembered a natural phenomenon that still takes place today and wrote about it in his official history of his regiment.

"A dense fog came drifting down the mountain hunting a place to cross. It was so heavy it could not rise above the mountain top and sought an opening in the Gap. On reaching the Gap it began pouring itself through, and so dense was it, for an hour the sun could not be seen, and part of the time we could not see an object ten feet ahead of us." - William Worsham, 19th Tennessee Infantry
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« Reply #2365 on: August 17, 2023, 10:32:20 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on August 17, 2023, 08:49:03 AM
I got one my second year in college.  In HS, we had Picket Log Log metal slide rules.  I may still have that somewhere packed away. 
I still have my slide rule. Not sure I remember how to use it. 
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