What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

mbkr said:
I had to type punch cards in college for my Fortran course. Good times 🤪

My Dad was a millwright for Chrysler. Sometime in the 60's he helped install a room sized computer. I never could convince him that the computer I had on my desk at work had more computing power than the room sized one :rolleyes:


Save the EL34s for me ;)

Another pic of the copperhead this morning
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Try convincing him that actual smartphone or tablet easily tops one of those early PCs. I can remember my first on with Windows 3.11, harddrive of 20 MB and 2MB RAM I got in the early 90‘s.
 
Had to get creative but this was too good not to share.

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Headed to town in a short while. Dropping off ballots and then sending a Granddaughter her wedding present. Pancakes, 2-eggs up, and sausage links for breakfast at the Wagon Wheel Cafe. Got a wacky idea that this 2-blade Lambfoot would make a good carry today.

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Primble said:
Albers Cut. Co. White Oak Burl and Cocobolo for Tuesday. The White Oak Burl is literally infested with critters, to my delight.
You can see my color illustrated perceptions/hallucinations on the Albers thread. 😊

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Stunning pair Mr P :) I'll have to check out your other post! :D :) :thumbsup:
JohnDF said:
I remember asking my Father if we could get a color TV, he would just say, "Black and White ARE colors". 🤣
He had a voice operated remote control too, his name was John... He'd say, "John, get up and change the channel for me!"
My favorite accessory was the ultra high-tech tinfoil wrapping around the antennas... with that super high-tech addition, we could get three channels.
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Classic Dadisms! 🤣 :thumbsup:
JohnDF said:
Very cool knife, Jack. 🤠:thumbsup:
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Thanks pal :) :thumbsup:
Primble said:
A color radio ! 😲😲😲🤣 Does it have a lava lamp or something ?🤣🤣

Those are two more stunners you got in yer pocket today ! :thumbsup::thumbsup:😍
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LOL! 🤣Thank you very much my friend :) :thumbsup:
mbkr said:
2.6 inches of rain last night and it's still raining :thumbsup:
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Too bad it didn't come a couple of days earlier. We've been in a drought. Mild compared to the west, but its been dry. This weekend we had 20+ mph winds. A piece of farm equipment ignited a fire near the tiny town of Woolridge, Missouri. It burned 3500 acres and half the town :( I-70 was closed for two hours due to the smoke.
Woolridge
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That's terrible! :eek::(
mbkr said:
Tubes rule! 👍👍👍

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Needs a dusting 😬
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Cool :cool:

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mbkr said:
I had to type punch cards in college for my Fortran course. Good times 🤪

My Dad was a millwright for Chrysler. Sometime in the 60's he helped install a room sized computer. I never could convince him that the computer I had on my desk at work had more computing power than the room sized one :rolleyes:
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I remember doing a programming course in the early 90's, and the teacher told us that, not long after WW22, he had worked on one of the first computers, just a series of switches, which was on a battleship, and absolutely vast :D

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Thank you everyone for the push, it is a good day to put the headphones on. This is a great little amp.View attachment 1968727
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Really cool pic :cool: :thumbsup:
 
I like these Morris friction folders. I remember walking to the store with tv tubes to test. And not only getting up to change the channel but we had a TV that seemed to require constant adjustment of the horizontal hold. Most abodes had a big TV antenna on the roof. Good times.
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Amir Fleschwund said:
LOL. I’ll never forget those stacks of cards in Fortran IV, and the wails of anguish at two in the morning the night before our programs were due when some sad undergrad dropped his two foot stack of cards in the stairwell coming out of the basement programming lab at UI. 😩

Sorry to hear about that fire!
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This is so funny because it’s so accurate!
Some of us used to use those shallow cases from beer/soda to carry cards in … and I actually watched a guy trip walking across the lab floor and spilled an entire case full … I thought he was going to cry.
Wow … kindred keypunchers … 😁
 
Haegar said:
Try convincing him that actual smartphone or tablet easily tops one of those early PCs. I can remember my first on with Windows 3.11, harddrive of 20 MB and 2MB RAM I got in the early 90‘s.
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20MB hard drive?!? 2MB RAM? Huge. (at the time)
I remember Billie Gates saying in an interview, in 88 or 89 (quote): "No one needs more than 64KB of RAM!" (end quote)
A couple months later his Microsoft brought out the first version of Windows, which made the boss' earlier statement a lie.
 
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