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ScratchMonkey wrote:
outsider wrote in
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Are you trying to say that calcualtors existed when you were in high
school? Are you sure you're not thinking of an abacus?
My dad was using slide rules when I was a kid (60's and 70's) and I
recall he had a nifty circular (disk-shaped) slide rule. Slide rules
remained useful at the advent of the calculator revolution as they were
better at transcendentals, while the early calculators were only
4-function unless you were quite wealthy.


Back in 1944 I worked for two lawyers. They had a nifty calculator. It
stood on a pedestal and was heavy iron and about 16X16 inches. It had
multiple rows. Once your number keys were pushed in you had to pull a
handle down to activate it. Grocery stores had hand operated adding
machines too. That is how they added the grocery ;list. Adding
machines like that were still in use in the 50s. MLB

I used to have one of those as a display item in one of my stores. Dang
thing was heavy. It had special pixel etched on keys one was for a milk
jug, one was corn, one was an apple. it must have been from a farm
country store. I donated it when the stores closed
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I wonder how it wold be priced on Antiques Roadshow? MLB

I know it was worth some cash but let the public enjoy the history instead
of some collector letting it collect dust.

Not into antiques now if you want to see comic or sci-fi collection.
I have the envy of every star trek fan out there. I have from Franklin
Mint the star trek collectors plate all 4 of them from the 4 original series
before the new one last year that was released each one #1 of the series all
signed by the original cast and director. Now you want to see people drool
when I go to a convention.. Or when I pull out a issue where wolverine
makes his first appearance signed by the original cartoonist. I love the
offers I get. I have a big sign in front NOT FOR SALE DON'T ASK you will
be surprise how many still ask I tell them what does the sign read

I know if I was to sell all my collections I would be able to retire again
completely but not yet still got many years ahead of me and If I do go
before Mom she has what the collection is worth and can use it to live on
till her final days

ScratchMonkey wrote:

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Besides, with someone like that, you make the cut one day, and the
next day you don't, and I certainly didn't want a relationship based
on my having to prove that I was good enough. So I just didn't bite.

Would you like the person who doesn't make the cut as your surgeon? How
about as the guy who makes the most important decisions for your bank or
your investments?

What does that have to do with me not wanting to engage in bashing people
that a friend thought were beneath her?

--
Joyce ^..^

"They were savages - they deserved what they got." - Ayn Rand, speaking
of Native American Indians, Ford Hall Forum, Boston, 1975

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What does that have to do with me not wanting to engage in bashing people
that a friend thought were beneath her?

Mostly that there are legitimate as well as illegitimate reasons for
prejudice, and that the prejudice itself isn't necessarily bad.

I don't disagree that prejudice for the sake of self validation is a bad
idea.

It intrigues me to wonder what sociological experiments have been done on
such bashing, whether it's some twisted survival trait that served an
important function in early human society, or perhaps in our pre-human
ancestors. Knowing where it comes from might make it easier to end.

ScratchMonkey wrote in
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outsider wrote in
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Are you trying to say that calcualtors existed when you were in high
school? Are you sure you're not thinking of an abacus?

My dad was using slide rules when I was a kid (60's and 70's) and I
recall he had a nifty circular (disk-shaped) slide rule. Slide rules
remained useful at the advent of the calculator revolution as they
were better at transcendentals, while the early calculators were only
4-function unless you were quite wealthy.


Ha! I never went anywhere without my circular slide rule (yeah, I was a
geek). I loved it because you were never off the wrong side of the rule
with the slide.