Who used to own this bad boy?

[FHwku]

[sageofages]

Originally posted by moe.ron

Well actually...... Daddy SageofAges had one, that I liked to play with. He showed me how to use it...and then took it away so I wouldn't break it (he needed it in his AF job fixing airplanes).

Geez I remember saving up all my money one summer to give him a new fangled calculator for Christmas when I was 16. It cost $150. The same thing today cost $9 at Walmart and my son uses it in his 7th grade math class

Times they are arollin' along.

[aurora_borealis]

I remember using a slide rule as calculators weren't allowed. The reasoning was for certain professions if you were in the field you couldn't always rely on batteries or solar power.

However, my mother is still rocking her BETAMAX. This thing is huge, and she buys blank tapes at flea markets and such as she finds the quality better for recording off the television, and the tapes are smaller than VHS.

[copacabana]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
Speaking of outdated gadgets, how about this:


I got something similar to this my junior year in college; it was cutting edge technology at the time. My daughters spied it when I was cleaning out the garage when we moved last year and were fascinated by it. "You have to put paper in it?" "What if you make a mistake?" "correction tape?"

It was like they'd unearthed a fossil or something

Storytime!

When I was in high school (a few years ago), I used to work at a senior center close to my house. My first day there, they decided to have me make new labels for their file cabinets. While I was wondering which of the two vacant computers they would have me use to complete the task, the manager handed me a package of labels and said "You can go ahead and get started-- you'll be using the typewriter in the corner." I was like since I had never even seen a typewriter before, much less ever used one! They thought it was downright hilarious that I hadn't seen or used one before (and I thought they were incredibly outdated and strange for still having one).

[LightBulb]

Don't know much about geography
Don't know much trigonometry
Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for.

But I do know that one and one is two,
And if this one could be with you,
What a wonderful world this would be.

Now i don't claim to be an "A" student,
But I'm trying to be.
'Coz maybe by being an "A" student baby
I can win your love for me.

[moe.ron]

This was my first computer:

[RedRoseSAI]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU

Are you sure that's not a pepper mill?

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally posted by RedRoseSAI
Are you sure that's not a pepper mill?

Believe it or not, that's what people caled Curtas - peppermills!

[KatieKate1244]

Originally posted by moe.ron
This was my first computer:

That takes me back to my grade school days, playing Oregon Trail all day long.

My grade school later sold all the old Apples in a school yard sale and I bought one for around $30, including Oregon Trail and some other software. However, my mom gave it away when I went to college.

[christiangirl]

Originally posted by AGDee
I could probably sell it to a museum!

My mom found one out in the garage yesterday. That was my suggestion for it.

[christiangirl]

Originally posted by KatieKate1244
That takes me back to my grade school days, playing Oregon Trail all day long.

Oh, I was all about that Oregon Trail. I used to purposely starve to death because I just couldn't bring myself to shoot that buffalo. He looked so sad, like he was pleading with me, who was I to tell him 'no'?

Who still has one of these? Mine's out in the garage.


Hey, it's not that old, but you know what? You have a blast from your past...I have mine

[abaici]

Originally posted by FHwku

That phone is ginormous. It's what I refer to as the Zach Morris phone.


I remember having an Adam computer and playing Buck Rogers on it. LOL

[mmcat]

now that last calculator was scary. i, too, had a slide rule and learned to type "old school."
you can appreciate where we are now, if you look back to the then.

[JenMarie]

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
LOL! I like to think I know everything about him but I suppose it's possible that there's a pocket protector in his past. Don't ask, don't tell, I guess

Speaking of outdated gadgets, how about this:


I got something similar to this my junior year in college; it was cutting edge technology at the time. My daughters spied it when I was cleaning out the garage when we moved last year and were fascinated by it. "You have to put paper in it?" "What if you make a mistake?" "correction tape?"

It was like they'd unearthed a fossil or something

I didn't get a computer with a printer until 9th grade or so. So I used one of those for quite some time. I HATED it because the delete key never worked properly. My parents still have it somewhere I'm sure.

Originally posted by christiangirl
Oh, I was all about that Oregon Trail. I used to purposely starve to death because I just couldn't bring myself to shoot that buffalo. He looked so sad, like he was pleading with me, who was I to tell him 'no'?

Who still has one of these? Mine's out in the garage.


Hey, it's not that old, but you know what? You have a blast from your past...I have mine

Man... Duck Hunt was the shit...

[APhi Sailorgirl]

Originally posted by AlphaSigOU
The Curta calculator:





More info: http://curta.org/

My grandfather had like six or eight of these in his basement that we found after he passed away.

My mom sold them on ebay, they went for like over a grand each. Seriously my mom couldn't believe what people were willing to pay for them and some weren't even in good condition.

On the typewriters, sometimes you still need to use them b/c some documents (like government ones) you have to print out and then type onto the form.