I'm So Old.....

[Vee]

....that when I was in elementary school,
desks still had special holders for inkwells.

How old are you?

In my school teachers used to send us to a corner with these big paper ears on, to pretend we were donkeys when we weren't doing well in school.

 

[Revoltingest]

I honestly think that if God ever had a role to play in religious books then those books would be science fiction.

They have been more prophetic than many things I know of.

That reminds me.....
We had teacher led prayer in public school.
Bible stories too.
I remember one about God's vengeance.

Wanna really cement a kid's atheism?
That's how to do it.
I began to really loathe religion.

 

[Revoltingest]

In my school teachers used to send us to a corner with this big paper ears on, to pretend we were donkeys when we weren't doing well in school.

I had to sit under the piano.

 

[Revoltingest]

Nerd points were scored by having more scales on the slide rule hanging from your belt compared to the other nerd.

No one in my school ever wore a slide rule on the belt.
It was just understood that wasn't done.

 

[exchemist]

I bow low to your winning, oh grand and glorious nerd.

See amendment to my post

 

[Revoltingest]

In my school teachers used to send us to a corner with this big paper ears on, to pretend we were donkeys when we weren't doing well in school.

Must've been good for self esteem.
I vaguely recall possibly having a wee bit'o behavioral issue.

 

[Vee]

I vaguely recall possibly having a wee bit'o behavioral issue.

You? NOOOOO

 

[sun rise]

I vaguely recall possibly having a wee bit'o behavioral issue.

You too!

I once drove a pencil into the arm of the bully sitting behind me who was harassing me.

And I found later on that I had a talent for using words to snow the psychologist my parents took me to. It was all about pretending maturity and insight into my own behavior.

 

[Revoltingest]

You too!

I once drove a pencil into the arm of the bully sitting behind me who was harassing me.

And I found later on that I had a talent for using words to snow the psychologist my parents took me to. It was all about pretending maturity and insight into my own behavior.

I bow to your superior delinquency.

 

[Katzpur]

You can probably get it for free on your computer. I think it might be open source these days.

It wouldn't be quite the same, though, would it?

 

[Revoltingest]

It wouldn't be quite the same, though, would it?

Ya gotta have the vintage console, ideally the
big one with the flat horizontal CRT used in bars.

 

[Polymath257]

At school, the status-conscious supernerds went in for a sort of tubular telescopic slide rule, with a spiral scale, that was allegedly long enough to give you 4 sig figs. I recall debating whether or not to get a double-sided one, but in the end decided against.

The one I chose is this one, and I have it in my desk at this moment.
http://www.mcmullon.com/icollect/calculators/slide_rulers/thornton.htm

It's gone a bit yellow but still slides smoothly. (as the bishop said to the actress......)

I have a Picket microline 140 beside me at the moment. It isn't my best one (which is on campus), and the slider is gone, but I can still use it.

Pickett Microline 140.

 

[Jedster]

@Israel Khan

Re:RPG FYI

See IBM RPG - Wikipedia

 

[Revoltingest]

I have a Picket microline 140 beside me at the moment. It isn't my best one (which is on campus), and the slider is gone, but I can still use it.

Pickett Microline 140.

My bamboo Post Versalog #223179 is right here next to me.
But it's not the one I used in school. I bought it later at a garage sale.
I also have my old drafting tools, some over 100 years old.
Even a planimeter.
I haven't used it yet, but some day if I ever get an indicator
on an engine, I can use it to calculate power.

 

[Brickjectivity]

Ya gotta have the vintage console, ideally the
big one with the flat horizontal CRT used in bars.

Theoretically we will all be using those again, someday. Why? Because. If anything goes wrong with the LCD elves then we'll have to start making CRT's again.

 

[Brickjectivity]

In my school teachers used to send us to a corner with these big paper ears on, to pretend we were donkeys when we weren't doing well in school.

That is terrible. I'm going into the past (using a time machine) to take one of my tears that I cried for myself, so that I may donate it to you. You deserve it more than me.

 

[crossfire]

I'm so old I remember watching the first episode of Sesame Street. (It was in black and white for the first week or so, and Oscar the Grouch was hot pink for a few episodes once they got color.)

 

[crossfire]

I'm so old that I played *original* D&D---no computers.

I didn't start until they got the Advanced D&D released.

 

[Polymath257]

My bamboo Post Versalog #223179 is right here next to me.
But it's not the one I used in school. I bought it later at a garage sale.
I also have my old drafting tools, some over 100 years old.
Even a planimeter.
I haven't used it yet, but some day if I ever get an indicator
on an engine, I can use it to calculate power.

My good slide rule is a Versalog and bamboo. I'm not sure of the number. But it came in a very nice leather case. It was my present for going off to college.

 

[crossfire]

I'm so old that I remember when President Truman was still alive--but not JFK.