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Hi @JohnEGreen ,

I have no idea what the application would be for me.. I use the Mobile. But log the results down as I go with the Diaconnect app on either my iPad or Samsung phone... (I have an account that shares across each device.)
 
It will allow the mobile to connect directly with the mySugr app amongst other things where wireless comunications may be an advantageous ie connecting to your computer and the 360 program as well.

I think.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
What does it do? I use the Mobile.
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Lol, to be fair.. I was brought up in an era when the fanciest thing in our house was a "speak & spell" for my younger sister? prior to that, a calculator...
She was later given an Acorn computer. But never took to it. Whilst I did my best with tech. I knew it would eventually "catch on." ;)

@JohnEGreen got any links? (Look at me sounding like a boffin with my jargon.) :)
 
Jaylee said:
Lol, to be fair.. I was brought up in an era when the fanciest thing in our house was a "speak & spell" for my younger sister? prior to that, a calculator...
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Blimey, you are a spring chicken. All we had were our brains, the ability to do mental arithmetic, log tables, a set square, protractor and a ruler. :)
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Blimey, you are a spring chicken. All we had were our brains, the ability to do mental arithmetic, log tables, a set square, protractor and a ruler. :)
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I'm pretty sure we just had fingers and toes when I were a lad.. oh yeah my dad had a mechanical adding machine that was so complex none of us could figure out how to use it.. I was so glad when calculators first appeared just before my exams although I'm pretty sure they were banned in mathematics..
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Blimey, you are a spring chicken. All we had were our brains, the ability to do mental arithmetic, log tables, a set square, protractor and a ruler. :)
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Now. Oddly. When I was at school. The ones with the aptitude for such mathematical genius were introduced to calculators...
The rest of us...? Were lesser mortals taught to accept the limits of our grey matter.. The cane was abolished a year before I left.

The only computer at school was a Sinclair spectrum in the science department.. Which I touched once.. Lol.
My dad was a fountain of information (English or maff.) which was probably beaten into him at an early age. :banghead:
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Blimey, you are a spring chicken. All we had were our brains, the ability to do mental arithmetic, log tables, a set square, protractor and a ruler. :)
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You have forgotten the most important one a slide rule.

I bought a Canon F-73 scientific calculator in 1985, which I still have in good working condition, but it is slow calculating compared to the paid HiPer Calc app I have on my mobile.

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Jaylee said:
My dad was a fountain of information
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Same here when I was about 7 years old he had me doing reams of algebraic problems, he the built a small morse code system so we could communicate in morse code from one part of the house to another and often would come home slightly tipsy should I say drag me out of bed a 2 or 3 in the morning and insist on playing chess till dawn. I must admit to having a strange if not a little stressful childhood He was always building radio gear in the front room also wires strung every where. :)
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Blimey, you are a spring chicken. All we had were our brains, the ability to do mental arithmetic, log tables, a set square, protractor and a ruler. :)
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Didn't you have a slide rule, Blue tit? I must have been really with it with my PIC!:) With my job as a transmitter engineer I got one of the first BBC micros model A and upgraded it to B spec. Really enjoyed playing Revs and Aviator. Tried to get into machine code but preferred the great outdoors and birding far more.
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lindisfel said:
Didn't you have a slide rule, Blue tit? I must have been really with it with my PIC!:) With my job as a transmitter engineer I got one of the first BBC micros model A and upgraded it to B spec. Really enjoyed playing Revs and Aviator. Tried to get into machine code but preferred the great outdoors and birding far more.
D.
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Tipetoo said:
You have forgotten the most important one a slide rule.
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I don't recall ever having a slide rule. As a student I worked as a settler in a respectable betting shop. I did this every holiday for 3 years. Even they didn't have any aids, although there was a sort of mechanical adding machine. All the bets were settled by mental arithmetic, pens and scrap paper. Calculators were a thing of the future. I have vague memories of one of the first proper computers at one of the universities. It filled a whole room.
 
At senior school we had lessons in hand writing using a cheapo fountain pen (just a nib with a wooden shaft) and an inkwell. Don't see many desks now with the little hole in to slot the white inkwell into.
 
Jaylee said:
. I was brought up in an era when the fanciest thing in our house was a "speak & spell" for my younger sister? prior to that, a calculator...
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A high tech childhood, then! At school I had to learn to use what we called a "dip pen": a pen holder of wood into the end of which was inserted a metal pen knib. With this went an ink well (for some reason often full of more blotting paper than ink). The ends of the wooden pen holders were good for chewing while pondering (as were pencils) but the ink rose unstoppably up our fingers, made blots and smudges on our work, and transferred itself to our noses and, worse, our white uniform blouses. I suppose it was character forming!
 
Guzzler said:
At senior school we had lessons in hand writing using a cheapo fountain pen (just a nib with a wooden shaft) and an inkwell. Don't see many desks now with the little hole in to slot the white inkwell into.
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I remember those writing lessons, and especially the wooden fountain pens and ink wells. Everyone in the class had the same handwriting! I remember doing a line of the letter "a", with Miss Leah chanting "swing down up down" I don't think Biros were around then, and when they were they were banned in school.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
I remember those writing lessons, and especially the wooden fountain pens and ink wells. Everyone in the class had the same handwriting! I remember doing a line of the letter "a", with Miss Leah chanting "swing down up down" I don't think Biros were around then, and when they were they were banned in school.
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Biros were a very expensive novelty when they first came in. My grandfather was given one as a present. Every day he would stare at it gloomily and say, "I must get that going". In the end my mother seized it, took off the cap, handed the pen to him and said, "There, it's going!" Sadly, I am just like my grandfather. Acquiring new technology is easy, but then follows a prolonged period of : "I must get that going".
 
Bluetit1802 said:
All we had were our brains, the ability to do mental arithmetic, log tables, a set square, protractor and a ruler. :)
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Not me! I was / am rubbish at mental arithmetic, never even got started n log tables, can't use a set square or protractor. However I can use a ruler and a calculator and that suffices.
 
lindisfel said:
Didn't you have a slide rule, Blue tit? I must have been really with it with my PIC!:) With my job as a transmitter engineer I got one of the first BBC micros model A and upgraded it to B spec. Really enjoyed playing Revs and Aviator. Tried to get into machine code but preferred the great outdoors and birding far more.
D.
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First computer I ever saw and used was the Manchester Atlas in the 1960s - a room full of valves, wires and circuit boards that could throw hissy fits in hot weather. We used paper tape and punched cards, and often had to wait days for results - it taught me to be very very accurate!

But the first "personal" computer I ever saw years later was a KIM owned by one of our computer people at work, and which was just a bare circuit board as far as I can remember.

My husband bought a kit to build his first scientfic computer, he was so excited he stayed up all night to build it. We later had a TRS80 which was a just keyboard with all the hardware in it and needed a TV as a monitor and a tape recorder for storage.

I remember watching a TV series about the BBC Micro - and they mentioned an 80 something old lady who had built hers. She was my later inspiration for build your own.

But I've never ever used a slide rule....:wideyed: And I remember those scratchy blotchy pens and inkwells too!

Robbity
 
I can remember having to input data via a manual shift register very slow and laborious process.

Took us ages to program the computer to play jingle bells.
 
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