I remember geeking out at getting to work on my first real terminal, attached to a mainframe at the old West Valley College campus in Campbell in 1973. My favorite calculator was acquired in 1976 at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks bookstore. I still have it, it still works.
I also remember the neighbor of my grandparents who had a real working hand operated printing press. The kind where you lay out the paper on the lower blank of type & then turn the humongous crank to bring the upper blank down.
For some reason I've always liked gadgets which don't need to plug in. I wonder what happened to that machine.
A Texas Instruments SR-51 calculator, $129 at Capwells. It was in my car when the car was stolen the first time. The car was recovered (along with the thief) but the calculator was gone.
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Date: 1 Feb 2011 17:39 (UTC)I suppose my first real geek love was the TRS-80 computer I taught myself to program on back in 1978.
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Date: 1 Feb 2011 18:19 (UTC)xkcd: 1996 (http://xkcd.com/768/)
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Date: 1 Feb 2011 18:54 (UTC)I also remember the neighbor of my grandparents who had a real working hand operated printing press. The kind where you lay out the paper on the lower blank of type & then turn the humongous crank to bring the upper blank down.
For some reason I've always liked gadgets which don't need to plug in. I wonder what happened to that machine.
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