You guys with your new fangled electronic gizmos must be a lot younger. My first computers were an Antikythera Mechanism and an abacus
You know you're a geezer when.......................
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Posted 05 June 2020 - 02:32 PM
I had a summer job in college with the USGS water resources division. We used punch cards to prepare a data set for something called a step-backwater flood simulation. If everything worked well, our punch cards were fed into a machine (hopefully no miss-feeds) that transmitted the card information from Boise to Denver, where the mainframe resided. After waiting overnight, the run results would come back, usually with a zillion error codes, which then resulted in having to go back through the card deck to look for miss-coded, or worn punch holes or something else, then doing it all over again. We felt quite cutting edge in our tech skills.
Five years later I owned a programmable RPN HP hand calculator that could run each simulation in under a minute. Times do change.
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Posted 05 June 2020 - 04:25 PM
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Posted 05 June 2020 - 06:55 PM
Antikythera,yea but can it access the net?
Cool device.
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Posted 05 June 2020 - 06:58 PM
You know you're a geezer when you are hanging out with this bunch. 
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Posted 05 June 2020 - 07:00 PM
You know you're a geezer when you are hanging out with this bunch.
True that...
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Posted 05 June 2020 - 10:04 PM
That's very true but it's a great bunch to hang out with.
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Posted 29 August 2020 - 02:23 PM
.......................when you start shaking because you just saw the price of new fly line.
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Posted 29 August 2020 - 04:04 PM
.......................when you start shaking because you just saw the price of new fly line.
Rumor is you can get a 72 month personal loan.
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Posted 29 August 2020 - 06:31 PM
Is that a no interest loan?
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