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Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.

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Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 1:11 pm
(June 4, 2015 at 1:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: ...


Before this, we used to sit in the dorm and play cards and actually talk to each other!

That must have been hell.

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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 1:27 pm
I wonder we still have language.

Somehow, despite having much more amazing games, we still manage to communicate.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 1:34 pm
That's what my father used at his shop to do his calculations in the early 70ies. Olivetti Divisumma 18. I still have it in good working order, since it was a ptretty rare designer piece.

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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 1:46 pm
Recent past sales on Ebay for the above calculator, working condition, are over $100.

Even nonworking it's worth $35 for parts.

That is a classic machine, nice designer form, looks like a Bauhaus ashtray.

Love it, love it, love it!!
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 1:51 pm
Certainly not as old as some of the other entries, but the hp 15c I got in '88 is still my daily workhorse. I even downloaded the app for my iPhone.

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June 4, 2015 at 2:07 pm
(June 4, 2015 at 1:11 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(June 4, 2015 at 1:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: ...


Before this, we used to sit in the dorm and play cards and actually talk to each other!

That must have been hell.

You know it.  That's where I met my first fundie.  What an asshole that guy was.  From a town in upstate NY with about 8 people....all terribly inbred.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 2:14 pm
A Shaker that time forgot?
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 2:20 pm
(June 4, 2015 at 2:14 pm)Cato Wrote: A Shaker that time forgot?

Naw Shakers are celibate, not incestuous.  That's one of the reasons they've mostly died out.  They have to talk others in rather than breed and indoctrinate them.
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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 2:50 pm
This beauty got me through math classes in junior high (despite my classmates razzing that it didn't do reverse polish notation).

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RE: Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.
June 4, 2015 at 2:54 pm (This post was last modified: June 4, 2015 at 3:00 pm by Cato.)
(June 4, 2015 at 2:20 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Naw Shakers are celibate, not incestuous.  That's one of the reasons they've mostly died out.  They have to talk others in rather than breed and indoctrinate them.

Quite right, thanks. I had forgotten about that bit.
(June 4, 2015 at 2:50 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: This beauty got me through math classes in junior high (despite my classmates razzing that it didn't do reverse polish notation).

RPN prudes. I prefer RPN, but never got the razzing bit. On that note, my wife gets great satisfaction watching me attempt to use a calculator with traditional operation. I've used RPN so long that I fumble through the most basic calculations.
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