tkdguy Posted May 3, 2021 Report Share Posted May 3, 2021 2 minutes ago, Bazza said: All the stuff they try to teach in school that you never use after, like fancy geometry. Also interpolating and calculating square roots by hand. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 3, 2021 Report Share Posted May 3, 2021 2 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said: Remembering that the first Space Shuttle never went to space and was named Enterprise. Playing games on my Merlin, the Electronic Wizard. Talk about a fancy UI. My sister want this game so badly...and it died on her the 1st day she got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 And while I'm thinking about it, Tank Man Pariah, Cygnia and Old Man 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 My mom had a TI calculator with an LED display and a power cord. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 I have an HP business calculator from the late 80s/early 90s, when they were the bees knees. The expression "the bees knees". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 https://www.liquor.com/recipes/bees-knees/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 6 hours ago, Bazza said: I have an HP business calculator from the late 80s/early 90s, when they were the bees knees. The expression "the bees knees". HP still sells the 12C, which was originally released in 1981. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 5 minutes ago, Ternaugh said: HP still sells the 12C, which was originally released in 1981. I took a business finance class as an undergraduate, where the professor asked us all to buy one of those (or the equivalent). I had no intention of doing so because a) I was a broke college student, 2) I was also taking Calculus III at the time, for which that calculator would have helped me not at all, and γ) I had a perfectly good >$100 TI-83+ calculator that I already knew how to use. So I talked to the professor after class to see if he could provide a formula sheet for the necessary calculations so that I could do them with the calculator I already had. He looked at me like I'd asked him for a deep-fried jellyfish with wasabi on the side; the subsequent conversation revealed his utter disbelief that the required calculations could be performed by a mere undergrad (and non-Business major, no less!) without the use of the said calculator. I thanked him for his time and went to the library, where I promptly downloaded and printed up a formula sheet to allow me to do all the necessary calculations. I earned an A in the class and was one of the few students who didn't struggle with the math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 I still have and use an HP-11C. I also have an HP-33s, which I got when I lost the 11-C for a while ... it was under my car's front seat, and I found it most of a year later. So I have both, and one lives at my main desk, the other goes in my travel kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 I'd never seen a 33s before. With that keypad layout, it looks positively infernal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 5, 2021 Report Share Posted May 5, 2021 I got the 11C after my first HP, a 29C, failed early in my grad school years after a fairly short career. I was balancing my checkbook with it (heh ... remember balancing your checkbook?) and was getting bizarre results, and figured it was the calculator when I was visually inspecting every step as I pounded out numbers, and saw that adding 70 + 115 gave me 71.5. Over and over. It's like the hundreds digit was getting dropped. I did a lot more experiments with it and the same sort of thing persisted. But the 11C has lasted more than 30 years since then, so it may outlive me. If it looks like it will, I'll ask for it as grave goods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 11, 2021 Report Share Posted May 11, 2021 tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 19, 2022 Report Share Posted May 19, 2022 This was the daily featured article in the last couple of days. I didn't realize I partook of it in the first wave of the expanded version in 1977. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted May 20, 2022 Report Share Posted May 20, 2022 I REMEMBER THAT GAME~! A friend had it on her computer...never finished it alas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 20, 2022 Report Share Posted May 20, 2022 I did finish it. Never finished Zork, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 20, 2022 Report Share Posted May 20, 2022 I miss page 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted May 20, 2022 Report Share Posted May 20, 2022 I completely forgot that this thread existed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted May 20, 2022 Report Share Posted May 20, 2022 The what now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 20, 2022 Report Share Posted May 20, 2022 5 hours ago, death tribble said: I miss page 3 You miss all the Page 3 Girls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted May 20, 2022 Report Share Posted May 20, 2022 1 hour ago, tkdguy said: I completely forgot that this thread existed. Yeah, that'll happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted May 20, 2022 Report Share Posted May 20, 2022 31 minutes ago, Cancer said: You miss all the Page 3 Girls? Some of them. I have actually met some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 Cigar boxes. My mom kept her old rock collection in them. Not sure when we got rid of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 A few years ago I was working at a basketball camp with the high school basketball coach and we had young kids (4th graders, 5th graders etc). Coach was explaining shooting form to the kids and he said for them to picture like they were "in a phone booth". I interrupted him and I asked the kids, "Who knows what a phone booth is?" No one raised their hands. We changed it to an elevator shaft. Jhamin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 Chart topping compilation tapes like Smash Hits, or Solid Gold, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Ruggels Posted June 24, 2022 Report Share Posted June 24, 2022 On 4/8/2021 at 9:09 AM, Pariah said: "I couldn't decide between the Pacer and the Gremlin." We had a Gremlin until my m om killed it. Riding to school about 3/4 of a mile, listening to the Capricorn One soundtrack on my SONY Walkman (First Generation). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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