Posted on 06/27/2018 8:30:06 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Son of a mecbanical engineer (yes, weapons: rockets, missiles, jets).
Thanks. #2 dead on.
I started as a double major: engineering and zoology. Had the aptitude for engineering but not the passion like my ME father.
I still have my slide rule. I bought the best.
I had a movie-scene experience in an Organic Chemistry mid-term: While using my slide rule, I suddenly heard a wailing voice cry, “My battery died!”
I felt sympathetic but validated.
Yes, I still have this dream, too.
I still use my HP15C (bought in 1985) every day at work. I dread the day it finally dies, because nobody makes an RPN calculator anymore, that I know of.
I've had that dream many times over. Then, when I try to go to the final, the exam has been moved to a place I can't find since I've been cutting the class.
Retired ChemE here.
I wonder if this is unique to us engineers, because that's almost the same as mine! And it's always an advanced calculus class, and I haven't studied all semester.
Looks like you can buy the 15c used on Ebay or Amazon. Depending on the condition they go for $100 to $300+
There is also a company that makes a clone of it for $135
Thanks for the information.
Your welcome. Amazing they go for so much..
I don't recall the exact class [differential equations ?], as I haven't had the dream in years, but I can clearly remember running the halls of the math building, looking in rooms in vain.
For years (10+) it was a dream I several nights a week.
Now why, in the dream, I was cutting a class that caused me trouble, is probably a question better left to a psychiatrist.
Depends.
Oldest thing that was originally mine?
A little plastic horse. There is a picture of me aged < one year lying on the dining room table looking at it. I can reach out from here and take it down from a shelf. I’m 54.
Oldest thing that has been in the immediate family that I have close at hand? My grandfather’s, then my dad’s Mossberg 151 .22. I learned to shoot with it at 8 years; it had to be supported by a pillow at the front.
Oldest thing that has been in the extended family?
1908 Pathe cabinet phonograph.
No slide rules, and the oldest calculator is from the 1990 and would be found risible by an engineer.
LCD?
1974?
Not LED?
Cool.
LCD?
1974?
Not LED?
Cool.
It does not look anything like modern LCDs. It is large and resembles neon but easy on the eyes. A very cool green color.
I remember when LCDs first came out they would only last a year or two.
Now that you pointed out a gun I just realized. Above me on the wall is a 30-40 Krag from the early 40s. It also has been passed on down. I also have a picture of me holding it in ‘55 or ‘56. Yes did some shooting with it but never killed or shot at a deer.
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