My new design software arrived. While running simulations may prove difficult making the parts should be easy enough.



Really is good software because they are soft as I can bend them and they wear very well. I wonder how many can actually remember using these things? When templates like this became available they were the nicest tools since the hammer and nail. I was rummaging and looking for something and found these in an envelope I put up years ago. Plenty of memories in them. Note the vacuum tube (valve for my friends across the pond). templates.

Ron

 

I wonder how many can actually remember using these things?

I remember them, including one that I bought from Radio Shack in 1972. Didn't get rid of the last of them until 5 years or so ago, when I found them in the back of my desk drawer.

 

Hello,

I still got my old drawing template:



Bertus

 

I've still got all mine from the late 70s & early 80s. Sorry, no photos. They're at the office.

I have drafting tools, too, including triangles and French curves.

 

I've still got all mine from the late 70s & early 80s. Sorry, no photos. They're at the office.

I have drafting tools, too, including triangles and French curves.

I had all but forgotten about the protractor, French curve and triangles. I have more of this stuff laying around here somewhere. Every now and then a grandchild finds something and ask "grandpa, what's this"? Fond memories of my dad working with me patiently teaching me how to use a slide rule. I wonder where that is?

Ron

 

teaching me how to use a slide rule. I wonder where that is?
Ron

Mine is on the wall in a glass case: 'In Case Of Emergency, Break Glass'.

I still find uses for the old Flexi-curve.


Max.

 

Fond memories of my dad working with me patiently teaching me how to use a slide rule. I wonder where that is?

If you need one.... try this one.


http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/n909es/virtual-n909-es.html

 

If you need one.... try this one.


http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/n909es/virtual-n909-es.html

Every year I try to get back to NYC for a party on the beach. One of the girls from my childhood dragged a slide rule to the beach as we had recently talked about them. I could still do the basics but beyond that I couldn't remember. The first actual scientific notation calculator I used was an HP with those tiny LED segment displays using the RPN. Pretty cool stuff and I like the one you linked to.

Over the years I have forgotten likely more than I knew. However, like when I was young I know where to find the answers. The Internet is faster than a trip to the library.

Ron

 

My backup computer at the ready. It is even Widows 10 compliant.

 

Every year I try to get back to NYC for a party on the beach. One of the girls from my childhood dragged a slide rule to the beach as we had recently talked about them. I could still do the basics but beyond that I couldn't remember.



Ron

Wow you guys know how to party!

 

Wow you guys know how to party!

Actually my wife ends up driving back to the hotel. Generally it's a real good time. So we took an educational moment. I bet I could have done better if I was actually sober.

Ron

 

One of the girls from my childhood dragged a slide rule to the beach as we had recently talked about them.

As a teen, I always used to bring a slide rule to the beach with me.

It never got me a girl.

Yelling "Hey, babe, let me show you my slide rule!" only got me beat up by their jock boyfriends.

Incomprehensible. The boyfriends didn't even have slide rules. Or, at least, very big ones.

 

As a teen, I always used to bring a slide rule to the beach with me.

It never got me a girl.

Yelling "Hey, babe, let me show you my slide rule!" only got me beat up by their jock boyfriends.

Incomprehensible. The boyfriends didn't even have slide rules. Or, at least, very big ones.

You needed to hang with us cool kids with the pocket protectors. We got all the babes.

 

You needed to hang with us cool kids with the pocket protectors. We got all the babes.

I never got invited to any of the glue-eating parties. Talk about an outcast!

 

I still have all of my templates and drafting stuff. I still use a couple of the templates, but for pretty mundane things.

I probably should get rid of them -- need to get rid of a LOT of stuff -- but there's just too much nostalgia wrapped up in them.

 

 

I still have all of my templates and drafting stuff. I still use a couple of the templates, but for pretty mundane things.

I probably should get rid of them -- need to get rid of a LOT of stuff -- but there's just too much nostalgia wrapped up in them.

I know what you mean. I got a stack of 4000A and 7400 series parts I refuse to throw away -- even though they'll never be of use to me.

My daughter will inherit all of my crap. I wonder what she'll do with it?

 

I know what you mean. I got a stack of 4000A and 7400 series parts I refuse to throw away -- even though they'll never be of use to me.

My daughter will inherit all of my crap. I wonder what she'll do with it?

Same here. If I can't get her interested in electronics, then I have a good feeling what will happen to it. Hopefully by having her involved in my business (and responsible for sorting and cataloging said crap) she will at least know what is there and what portions of it might be valuable enough to put in the effort to sell online.

 

Same here. If I can't get her interested in electronics, then I have a good feeling what will happen to it. Hopefully by having her involved in my business (and responsible for sorting and cataloging said crap) she will at least know what is there and what portions of it might be valuable enough to put in the effort to sell online.

I'm curious: how old is she?

Mine is 10, and she loves to come to my office, but I can't get her to work even if I offer her money.

At that age, I was fortunate enough to have a grandfather involved in tech and with his own business. I loved to go there and work... even if it was only to sweep the floor*.

*Edit: I got to play with the tech when I was done sweeping.

 

I still have all of my templates and drafting stuff. I still use a couple of the templates, but for pretty mundane things.

I probably should get rid of them -- need to get rid of a LOT of stuff -- but there's just too much nostalgia wrapped up in them.

Same here, I finally have tossed a few things. I figure if I have not shown an interest in something or used it in over 20 years it's time to pitch it. I had a small mountain of old junk computers. Can't place them on tree lawn as garbage so I had to wait till city disposal times, load them on my truck and drag them to the service garage. Little by little I have been getting rid of stuff. Matter of getting over the nostalgia thing.

Ron