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The Daring Dufas[_8_]

On 12/19/2013 10:34 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 21:58:05 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 12/19/2013 3:50 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:45:23 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 12/19/2013 11:13 AM, wrote:
On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 22:59:04 -0600, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 12/18/2013 5:14 PM, ps56k wrote:
my friend just retired and moved from a huge custom house in the cold,
snowy, Chicago area
down to the middle of FL - sitting out on the lanai....

He coined the term --- de-crapification

Just prior to his leaving, we had our little college ski group lunch
gathering (4 guys)
with him presenting us each with a token from our past as part of his
de-crapification.
Some were FORTRAN puch cards, from our CS days,
some were check/receipts from our skiiing in Austria,
some were photos from frat parties - with fuzzy hair and long sideburns.

When I was in college you could spot a nerd because he had a pocket
protector and a rectangular box of punch cards under one arm. Pocket
calculators came out later, cost around $400.00 and had nerds drooling
over them. I was out of college when I saw my first HP calculator but I
still had boxes of punch cards. ^_^

Punch cards were for the CS weenies. ;-) The real nerds had
slip-stick scabbards hanging from their belts (I carried mine with my
books). Over my senior year, the slip-sticks were being replaced by
calculators (and holsters for scabbards ;-). I bought an HP, and yes,
it was $400 (about 10-weeks gross pay).

Oh I had a slide rule too. It was a K&E as I remember and I wish I still
had it. ^_^

Mine is a Post Versalog. I still have it, as well as the HP-45 that
had its 40th birthday last month. ;-)

Oh man, the HP-45 cost as much back then as a desktop computer costs
now. ^_^

The HP-45 was $395 in 1973 but very different dollars. About 50x
different, for me.

That was a heck of a lot of money for me in those days considering
minimum wage was $1.60/hr and I was paying 22 cents a gallon for regular
at the San-Ann gas station. In 1971 I was working at a defense
plant that made some munitions parts for the military and I was paid
$1.68/hr because I was working 11pm to 7am. The 8 cents was called a
shift differential paid to those who worked the night shift. ^_^

The pot's been boiling for a long time and the frogs still haven't
jumped out. o_O

TDD