Can You Wear This Shirt

[dwco5051]

Chances are if you qualify for shirt this you are probably already retired. I figure I was the next to last generation for it.

 

[redneck joe]

Dam yer old....

 

[dwco5051]

Dam yer old....

Walked around campus with my K&E hanging from my belt as a freshman in 1957. Really impressed the chics. Even the elementary ed coeds avoided me.

 

[redneck joe]

 

[aspeck]

I learned how to use one ... but that was so long ago I have forgotten!

 

[tpenfield]

I had one of those things (Slide Rule) as a freshman in college . . . within a few years, it was all scientific calculators.

 

[cyclops222]

Me to.

 

[BWR1953]

I had one of those things (Slide Rule) as a freshman in college . . . within a few years, it was all scientific calculators.

Same here.

 

[dwco5051]

I had one of those things (Slide Rule) as a freshman in college . . . within a few years, it was all scientific calculators.

I do remember that around 1972/73 range my Dad got what I remember was a HP35. I played with it but didn't like using RPN to operate it. Later I did do some stuff in FORTH but RPN still slowed me down. I wasn't long after this I bought myself one of the first TI's with the red led numbers.

 

[bajaman123]

lol, kind of like showing a modern "machinist" a vernier caliper...

 

[dingbat]

Have my father in laws in my desk drawer.
He was a NASA engineer for the Gemini projects.

Use Excel and or Mathcad for most of the time now

 

[four winns 214]

Had to buy one and learn how to use it for high school chemistry in fall 1973. The department held a fund raiser to buy a digital scientific calculator. By the next year, basic 4-function calculators could be bought at K-Mart for $5.
Later in the year, we learned rudimentary FORTRAN and used punch cards on the computer at the local community college to run the programs we wrote.

 

[DeepCMark58A]

I am old but not that old, I more into punching in the combination in a calculator that spells shell oil

 

[redneck joe]

Yall speaking an alien language.

 

[Mc Tool]

I am old but not that old, I more into punching in the combination in a calculator that spells shell oil

Or 58008618 upside down
When I was a kid my parents went overseas and bought me back the 1st calculator anyone round here had seen ,neon display , teachers at school confiscated it most classes so they could play with it .

 

[garbageguy]

Had to buy one and learn how to use it for high school chemistry in fall 1973. The department held a fund raiser to buy a digital scientific calculator. By the next year, basic 4-function calculators could be bought at K-Mart for $5.
Later in the year, we learned rudimentary FORTRAN and used punch cards on the computer at the local community college to run the programs we wrote.

There it is - punchcards! In our first college engineering classes, we used punchcards and FORTRAN 77, then it was an HP with RPN. I still miss RPN, and sometimes try to use it on my little hand-held computer (aka "phone").

 

[redneck joe]

Dad was a career IBM man. When i was less than 8 I used to go with him to the office on weekends when he worked and I used to build epic houses of cards with those. Like whole cities....

 

[dingbat]

There it is - punchcards! In our first college engineering classes, we used punchcards and FORTRAN 77, then it was an HP with RPN. I still miss RPN, and sometimes try to use it on my little hand-held computer (aka "phone").

The final project for my first semester of programming was to build/write a RPN calculator in LISP.