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WCDT: 25-29 October 2010 (1781-1785)

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jwhouk:
What was The Moment Of The Week?

Reprint of 258 (Milk Bath!)    - 2 (8.7%)
You should try having an ACTUAL RELATIONSHIP.    - 0 (0%)
Oh, God, that's actually TRUE.    - 3 (13%)
My therapist won't see anyone else in my social circle.    - 4 (17.4%)
Wait, you're seeing someone?    - 0 (0%)
He misses your body (AUGH!)    - 6 (26.1%)
Wow. I broke him.    - 1 (4.3%)
Warning label under the boobs.    - 3 (13%)
TAKE ME, OH OMNISCIENT MACHINE PANTHEON!    - 3 (13%)
Mister Peepers! NOOOOOOOO!    - 1 (4.3%)

Total Voters: 23

Akima:

--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 30 Oct 2010, 12:56 ---You guys are beating me hands down on old computer stories, but I share mine anyway.
--- End quote ---
To all these old computer stories I say: "Looxury, bloody looxury!" My first computing device was a suànpán:

:-D

When, years later, I read Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! this anecdote struck a particular chord, although the Japanese gentleman in the story was probably using his country's soroban which differs significantly from the Chinese suanpan. There is a difference between being good at arithmetic, and understanding numbers, and there are pitfalls in relying too much on a machine. I enjoyed the story, and the book generally, so much that I'm prepared to forgive Feynman's unfortunate lapse into we/they thinking in the penultimate paragraph...

raoullefere:
Stop that. You're going to get someone to drag out his slide-rule stories, and then somebody's going to mention their bag of sticks, while someone's gonna haul out the old clay tablets he used back in Ur.

zadojla:

--- Quote from: raoullefere on 31 Oct 2010, 20:40 ---Stop that. You're going to get someone to drag out his slide-rule stories, and then somebody's going to mention their bag of sticks, while someone's gonna haul out the old clay tablets he used back in Ur.

--- End quote ---
Oh.  Never mind then...

celticgeek:
I am old enough to have used slide rules.  I also taught slide rule for a couple of years.

And we should probably move this to a thread in the computer forum, entitled: The Old Geek's Bragging Thread.

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