slim_boy_fat
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I'm old enough to remember when no-one had calculators....
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Talking of slide rules, I have this, instructions are on the back but not likely to ever needI still have my British Thornton slide rule somewhere. I never did work out how to use it very well
Country Joe
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All this slide-rule stuff - it'll be logarithms, next!
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slim_boy_fat
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Today I acquired [from the 'Bay of Everything] one of these - I'm hoping it will be useable as a fly-cutter in the Amolco - if I go very easy on wider stock/workpieces. Time will tell - I might have to check the contents of the first aid kit before I start, but I have other things to address before that.....
Halls Powerbor 50mm one [similar to this] - I know these are designed for mag drills but for what I paid it'll do for the odd job as a drill if it doesn't work the way I hope
Halls Powerbor 50mm one [similar to this] - I know these are designed for mag drills but for what I paid it'll do for the odd job as a drill if it doesn't work the way I hope
julianthegypsy
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When I did my city and guilds in Ag Engineering, we were the first year that was allowed calculators in the exam. The format was eight half hour questions of which you could pick five. We practiced on old exam papers and could do all eight questions in half an hour. We thought this was brilliant until we sat the exam, they just made the questions several times harder, and I was crunching until two minutes from the end. Phew.I'm old enough to remember when no-one had calculators....
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Thought that looked familiar, have the same one in my toolbox.
Pigeon_Droppings2
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yea me too.....does anyone remember the calculators pre LCD screens. I have a very vague memory of one with individual red led pixels when I was a kid because I used to love playing with it.
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I had a red LED one, must have been about 1973ish. Cost best part of a weeks wages if I recall, within a few weeks you could get one for about a quarter of the price. I can’t remember who made them then, could well have been Sinclair.
EDIT, just seen Wallace’s post below, Casio rings a bell as well. Could say “it all adds up” coat, door ........
Olderisbetter
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I remember mates having Texet calculators like the ones in this link http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/texet.html
sardine
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They are easy to use, just wait until someone bends over and " whacko ".I still have my British Thornton slide rule somewhere. I never did work out how to use it very well
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Ive still got an old TI with a red led display, no idea where it is though
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Like this?
That would have been my A level Pure and Applied calculator from 1983 / 84.
Unfortunately Dad modified the battery clip to be outside the case.
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A couple of days ago while taking an exercise walk, I spied this clamp screw fitting in a skip.
Thought the rounded stem on the threaded nut might fit in the hold down holes in my woodworking bench (and it does
), so it came home with me.
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Thought the rounded stem on the threaded nut might fit in the hold down holes in my woodworking bench (and it does
), so it came home with me..
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I wonder if anyone can spot this
