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RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 2:05 pm
(October 22, 2023 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Utterly useless skill I was forced to learn:

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Dad had a wooden one when he was in college.  I used to play with it but still have no idea what to really do with one.
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RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 3:39 pm
(October 19, 2023 at 10:20 pm)Fireball Wrote: I learned to program one of these in an independent math study "class" in high school. Quotes, because we just sat in the area between all the classes where the chem teacher mixed up stuff and the physics experiment stuff was kept. School year '69-'70. I graduated high school in '70.

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I'm Class of '69. We didn't dare leave our sweaters anywhere. Hehe
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#33
RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 3:40 pm
(October 22, 2023 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Utterly useless skill I was forced to learn:

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#34
RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 3:40 pm
(October 22, 2023 at 1:53 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: I also liked the cap gun toy.

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I can smell that picture.

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RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 4:12 pm
(October 22, 2023 at 2:05 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(October 22, 2023 at 12:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Utterly useless skill I was forced to learn:

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Dad had a wooden one when he was in college.  I used to play with it but still have no idea what to really do with one.

I was quite fluent with a slip stick back in the '70s, before hand-held calculators. I can still use mine to some extent.
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#36
RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 4:15 pm
The only slap stick I ever encountered.

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RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 4:28 pm
(October 22, 2023 at 4:12 pm)Fireball Wrote:
(October 22, 2023 at 2:05 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Dad had a wooden one when he was in college.  I used to play with it but still have no idea what to really do with one.

I was quite fluent with a slip stick back in the '70s, before hand-held calculators. I can still use mine to some extent.

I was required to learn how to use them when pocket calculators were already a thing. Pointless.

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#38
RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 7:53 pm
(October 22, 2023 at 1:53 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: I also liked the cap gun toy.

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Mine didn't have the red piece at the end of the barrel.

We'd also take the caps and set them off with a hammer.

I also remember putting firecrackers in the red ant mount. Fun until you get bitten by angry ants.
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RE: Memory lane
October 22, 2023 at 7:53 pm
(October 22, 2023 at 4:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(October 22, 2023 at 4:12 pm)Fireball Wrote: I was quite fluent with a slip stick back in the '70s, before hand-held calculators. I can still use mine to some extent.

I was required to learn how to use them when pocket calculators were already a thing. Pointless.

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My high school had a giant one on the wall.
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RE: Memory lane
October 23, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Everyone had one but I couldn't figure out what was the point of the snooze button.

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