Did Apple die?

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Guess you guys are too young to know anything about using slide rules and typewriters?

they taught us slide rules (not too much emphasis on that since we were using scientific calculators instead) and typewriters. that was still around when the TRS-80 came out.

[R.M.]

My first PC was a Dell. That thing was a monster and heavy ugh. I brought it home from Austin and didn't touch my Foosball table for two weeks.
I kinda feel its important to know windows and apple though.
Knowing both has advantages.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Guess you guys are too young to know anything about using slide rules and typewriters?

Nope!

I used my slide ruler to do the math on the "black board" in the front of the physics class to calculate the trajectory from lift off to splash down of Shepherd's suborbital flight in order to estimate the general location of his landing (without considering drift after chute deployment). The solid geometry class paid off.

I also still have my Royal ribbon manual on which I learned to type!

[TryWeakly]

^ isn't that a little "racy" calling a chalk-board....black?

Sorry I'm ltae, I dpoerpd all of my pnuch cdras and had to rersot tehm.

[LexusLover]

One day after the Mods sanitize my response what's left will be posted.

If anything is left.

[I B Hankering]

For years, Reader's Digest ran a section called "Humor in Uniform." This is one of the stories I remember reading.

At the beginning of WWII, one patriotic young man enlisted in the Army. He was well educated, and he even knew how to type. During processing, he was led into a room where there was a table adorned by a mimeograph machine, an adding machine and a typewriter. The sergeant administering the clerical aptitude test handed the enlistee a single, one page memo along with a blank sheet of paper. The sergeant told the young recruit to type out a copy of the memo on the typewriter. The young recruit considered his options as he sat down at the table and pulled the typewriter to him. He genuinely wanted to fight and not serve out the war as a clerk; so, he contrived to copy the memo and make as many mistakes as he thought he could reasonably make without tipping-off the sergeant that he was deliberately sabotaging the test.

When he was finished, he handed his work to the sergeant.

The sergeant re-filed the original memo and threw the young recruit's work in the trash bin without looking at it. The sergeant then told the young recruit that he would be assigned the Military Occupational Specialty of "Clerk: Typist". The young recruit was flustered and sputtered that the sergeant hadn't even looked at his work to justify such a decision.

The sergeant explained that he didn't need read what the young recruit had typed. "You knew the difference between the typewriter and the adding machine," the sergeant said.

Hand-held calculators postdate my high school days, and personal computers postdate my college days. I used a Montgomery Ward's Signature manual typewriter to type out my papers.

[NoTell]

Apple needs to step up their GAME!!! Putting a piece of glass around is hardly ground breaking!!

Microsoft products are Gawd Awful!!!! Windows 10 sucks!!

[RyanFromTER]

Too bad Samsung's CEO got 5yrs for bribery.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/24/sams...t-verdict.html

[bamscram]

Originally Posted by LexusLover

Nope!

I used my slide ruler to do the math on the "black board" in the front of the physics class to calculate the trajectory from lift off to splash down of Shepherd's suborbital flight in order to estimate the general location of his landing (without considering drift after chute deployment). The solid geometry class paid off.

I also still have my Royal ribbon manual on which I learned to type!

Don't forget this.

[TryWeakly]

Which catalog had better porn, Sears, JC Penney or Spiegel ?

[LexusLover]

This image reminds me a true story about providing guidance in remote parts of India with birth control using the rhythm method ....



... so PARROT ... no I wont' forget it!

[dilbert firestorm]

Originally Posted by TryWeakly

Which catalog had better porn, Sears, JC Penney or Spiegel ?

In this order:
Spiegel or Sears
Sears or Spiegel
Jc Penny

in some catalog seasons, spiegel or sears would have better catalogs than the each other.

[R.M.]

Originally Posted by TryWeakly

Which catalog had better porn, Sears, JC Penney or Spiegel ?

Sears. I saw a penis for the first time on the men's underwear page. Hanging out below.
I toke it to school and shared it with my besties.

[garhkal]

Originally Posted by I B Hankering

Guess you guys are too young to know anything about using slide rules and typewriters?

I used typerwriters in my typing class (needed it as a pre-req for accounting, when i lived in the UK).. Can't ever remember using slide rules though.

[LexusLover]

Originally Posted by garhkal

I used typerwriters in my typing class ......

... is that why they called it "typing class"?

My "typing class" was "home study" when I was 12.

It was mandatory also. And a correction: It was an "Underwood" ... I just dug it out of its "safe place"!