JohnEGreen
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Did you know they are bringing out a blue tooth dongle for the Accu- chek mobile can't wait to get me one.
Did you know they are bringing out a blue tooth dongle for the Accu- chek mobile can't wait to get me one.
What does it do? I use the Mobile.
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...
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..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.
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.
You have forgotten the most important one a slide rule.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.
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.My dad was a fountain of information
Didn't you have a slide rule, Blue tit? I must have been really with it with my PIC!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.
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.
You have forgotten the most important one a slide rule.
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!. 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...
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.
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".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.
Biros were a very expensive novelty when they first came in.
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.All we had were our brains, the ability to do mental arithmetic, log tables, a set square, protractor and a ruler.
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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