The Original Old Farts Club

[user 60570]

@bigsur51 You gotta try this with yours:

I will give it a shot and post the results…


say , are you in this photo?

 

[ROSTERMAN]

Morning OFC. Glare ice covers everything outside. Nothing is moving. Rush hour is a parking lot. I'm not going anywhere until this mess clears up.

Great...instead of coffee girls we get chickens, cats and dogs having sex and who knows what is next...

Ok things are back to normal.....now I can have my coffee.

Just wait
Who knows what lurks in the back of Rosters mind

 

[pute]

Just wait
Who knows what lurks in the back of Rosters mind

I'm sure it will all spill out sooner than later.

 

[WeedHopper]

Nope. Everything in Rosters head is rolling around like bbs in a match box.

 

[Unca Walt]

You don't have to go far to collect eggs LOL
Do they sheit in a litter box or all over the house

His and Hers --

 

[Unca Walt]

I will give it a shot and post the results…


say , are you in this photo?



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Aww... now that's creepy. I STILL HAVE my IBM-Issue slide rule. Solved all my A/C equations with it.

 

[kevinn]

When I went to college there were no calculators. We had to learn how to a slide rule for chemistry. 1/3 of the class flunked out. A while back, I asked my son if he knew what it was. Had no idea.

 

[Bubba]

When I went to college there were no calculators. We had to learn how to a slide rule for chemistry. 1/3 of the class flunked out. A while back, I asked my son if he knew what it was. Had no idea.

Calculators. First ones I saw cost 100 bucks, which was expensive back then. They only did addition, subtractions, multiplication and division.

Bubba

 

[ROSTERMAN]

His and Hers --
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OK now I have to
Do you really put these on your chickens

 

[Unca Walt]

I stopped at an antique store in Maggie Valley while on a moonshine-buying trip. There onna table was an old plumb-bob. The antique store guy did not know what it was.

I feel old. I was a surveyor for three years. They really don't use them anymore.

 

[Unca Walt]

Calculators. First ones I saw cost 100 bucks, which was expensive back then. They only did addition, subtractions, multiplication and division.

Bubba

And don't forget you had to use Reverse Polish Notation. <-- First time I heard that, I thought sumbody was pulling the long bow, and would soon send me out to get some prop wash.

And why do I remember having to insert some kind of strip in it?

 

[Bubba]

And don't forget you had to use Reverse Polish Notation. <-- First time I heard that, I thought sumbody was pulling the long bow, and would soon send me out to get some prop wash.

And why do I remember having to insert some kind of strip in it?

I didn't buy one back then, I could add subtract multiply and divide already!

Bubba

 

[WeedHopper]

1st calculator I ever seen was one my Mom brought home when she worked for an IT company many many yrs ago in Dallas.

 

[Hippie420]

I stopped at an antique store in Maggie Valley while on a moonshine-buying trip. There onna table was an old plumb-bob. The antique store guy did not know what it was.

I feel old. I was a surveyor for three years. They really don't use them anymore. View attachment 286525

I still have a few. If a two dollar plumb bob says one thing, and your two thousand dollar laser says another, it's time to send the laser in for recalibration.
Spent many a day of my young life on the other end of a water level.

 

[pute]

Due diligence is done downstairs. Turned out to be a nice day I'm going to walk.

 

[Hippie420]

Talked to our brother Yoop just before lunch. He's still in the hospital. Say your prayers for him. He said to tell you all that he loves ya.

More details at Woody's Playhouse.

 

[Tattered Old Graywolf]

When I went to college there were no calculators. We had to learn how to a slide rule for chemistry. 1/3 of the class flunked out. A while back, I asked my son if he knew what it was. Had no idea.

There were desk top size Burroughs mechanical calculators that took forever. If you entered N divided by 10,000,000, you could leave and come back after it had time to rotate 10,000,000 revolutions. Electronic calculators opened the world for me as a engineer.

I carried a 6" slide rule in my pocket until my first four function plus a constant handheld calculator in 1970. I still have it, a 12", and my E6-B circular flight slide rule.

Calculators. First ones I saw cost 100 bucks, which was expensive back then. They only did addition, subtractions, multiplication and division. Bubba

I paid $39.95 for my first four function calculator and $117.00 for my second scientific calculator. I still have a Ti-59, one of the first programmable calculators.

 

[stain]

Amazing that allot of people can't even use a measuring tape much less a slide rule. Someone should open a school to teach how to use old tec measuring tools. Calipers. abacus, slid rule ect.ect.

Want this tape measurer.... whistle....

 

[pute]

Back from the walk. Bit brisk but sun was shining and no wind so it was fine. Lake is totally frozen and has been for a couple of weeks. Ice fishermen are starting to show up with the ice getting thicker. I never got into ice fishing. Boring just sitting there......not my cup of tea.

 

[ROSTERMAN]

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