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As a society, we're likely to suffer for not insisting on such basics. (Sorry...that's a sore point with me.)
We had S&H. But we also had Texas Gold Stamps...and there was some short-lived plaid "Scotty" Stamps (or similar) that tried to get a foothold in central Texas. Same principle as the "free" glass, cup, dish or towel given away with a gas fill-up of X gallons or more at the local filling station. My mom kept multiple sets of glasses and bowls gotten that way right up until she died. Quote:
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You guys have brought up a lot of old memories for me. Cool. We still have a couple of full service stations in the area and a prosperous drive-in movie theater just down the road. I remember being taught how to use a slide rule in school. Calculators were around (but expensive) but they thought we should know anyway.
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Were there a lot of kids in the neighborhood that shared similar characteristics?
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When it comes to a stranger's fecal matter and/or urine on things that I might put in my mouth, there is no such thing as a "trace" amount
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In my first year of college, 1972, the bookstore had three glass counters of slide rules. Big ones, tall ones, fat ones, small ones, curved and circular ones, all kinds.
Over the next year, Texas Instruments brought out a four function calculator big as a very large sandwich that they called a pocket calculator. It was a princely $150. By 1974 they blew out the slide rules, had only a couple and the cabinets were full of calculators. TI, HP, Sharps, Commodore, Canon, were a few I remember. Another couple items were carbon paper and Eaton's Corrasable Bond erasable typing paper. That stuff got me thru college. Make a mistake? Roll the paper up a couple clicks, rub it with a pencil eraser, and roll it back in place. With care it looked fine, without care it was smudgy. Remember putting the carbon paper in upside down? Then there were Ditto machines and Mimeographs. Dittos were basically a reverse carbon copy that was applied to the paper with a solvent. Smelled mmmm good. Mimeographs were more like a silk screen process. They stunk but could make a lot cleaner copy and could make many more copies. Then typewriters... Elite and Pica. Pica had bigger letters. Elite was from the days when airmail cost an arm and a leg. I always had Elite, when professors preferred Pica. Finally a procured a Pica IBM selectric with three or four balls, shortly before PCs made them obsolete.
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You'd wrap the babies in paper?
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IBM Selectric came out in the mid or late '60s IIRC and had interchangeable type balls, but then (starting mid-'70s, early '80s) came correcting electrics... and other brands, notably Olivetti, had Daisy Wheels. You could have any of a number of typestyles...not just old-fashioned Pica and Elite, but Times, an "almost" Helvetica and other serif and sans serif faces, each on its own replaceable Daisy Wheel. I had at work...and later bought for my own use...a huge, wedge-shaped Olivetti self-correcting (it could remember a full line of type to automatically correct...or you could go back and line up and earlier line and use a reverse-and-correct technique to erase each letter) 121 or 221 electronic typewriter. Before true word processors and then desktop computers, this was the ultimate in professional look for documents. Dirk |
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It's probably okay that logarithms faded away....
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Whoah there ! No logarithms, no calculating guitar scales. Things I miss include: rickets, tuberculosis, painfully scary dentistry, casual sexism, casual racism, and Sunday closing of pubs.... Aaahh, the good old days. |
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I was pretty old fashioned in high school, and carried around an old book of logarithmic and trigonometric tables. Lots of fun interpolating when the angle I needed a sine or cosine for was in between two angles in the table...
I never really liked nor found long division useful. Short division to me was and is easier, tidier, and more useful, and should be taught in schools. I have Korean friends, and their kids were memorizing a 20 x 20 multiplication chart! I felt like such a dummy. I used to love paying for a round trip at the toll booth, and getting a token for the return trip. So much faster then paying cash each way, but admittedly not as fast as EZ-PASS. How 'bout the little doo-dad that you put on the spindle of your turntable to play multiple 45's? Or those star-shaped plastic thingies you put on the center of 45's? |
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Okay, I take it back! I'm just glad they faded out of my need to work with them.
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I remember when the free matchbooks had the striking part on the front. At some point after too many people accidentally lit the entire book on fire the striker part was switched to the back.
Also, AFAIK, it is still against the law for the driver to pump his own gas in New Jersey. An Attendant must do it! But they don't offer free full service. |