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#225,621
PillO said:
My dad, the great futurist:
In the 60s foresaw that computers would be important; learned programming and began working in the field. Worked on the first computer bought by the City of London (England).
In the 70s saw the importance of computers in accounting, but science and engineering? Nobody is going to want to wait for their program to be batched overnight. Slide rules and paper plans will be there forever.
In the 80s called personal computers toys because you can't do real computing on them (batching accounting overnight).
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Technology is impossible to predict. He didn’t see the implications of Moore’s law.
 
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PillO said:
My dad, the great futurist:
In the 60s foresaw that computers would be important; learned programming and began working in the field. Worked on the first computer bought by the City of London (England).
In the 70s saw the importance of computers in accounting, but science and engineering? Nobody is going to want to wait for their program to be batched overnight. Slide rules and paper plans will be there forever.
In the 80s called personal computers toys because you can't do real computing on them (batching accounting overnight).
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my dad worked as an applications engineer for worthigton pumps in NYC in the late 60's and left when they brought in an IBM 360 VAX....a clerk would walk around with a cart collecting the paperwork for the calculations to be done and would return with the results 1 hour later and distribute to the engineers who with nothing to do would just eye the secretaries.....said eyeing the same secretaries over and over got old...
 
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dagrev said:
I loved that the best. Took it every chance I got. Didn't care for metal shop. You could do something in class and actually have something visible and useful to show for it. For a short time, I even wondered about teaching shop. Shop was in most HSs here and now its NOT it most HSs. Only a couple here in a big city. So now most kids not only can't read, do math and other basics at previously accepted levels, they're never introduced to a possible non college/trade options which won't drive them in to huge debt by "Big Higher Education." And they never get to show off the good to awful stuff they made in HS!
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shop was awesome.....our teacher had an gorgeous 70 Corvette that he would bring and carefully tell us what to do to it saving a fortune in mechanic fees..:laugh:
that said, we built a fishing pier on a pond and a bridge over a creek...great times!..
 
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Chucky Stiletti said:
my dad worked as an applications engineer for worthigton pumps in NYC in the late 60's and left when they brought in an IBM 360 VAX....a clerk would walk around with a cart collecting the paperwork for the calculations to be done and would return with the results 1 hour later and distribute to the engineers who with nothing to do would just eye the secretaries.....said eyeing the same secretaries over and over got old...
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Back when the the computer room was a room with THE COMPUTER. MY high school had one and we would mark our test answers on punch cards:thumbsup:
 
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Engle said:
Technology is impossible to predict. He didn’t see the implications of Moore’s law.
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Ah, another long winded story. When I was dating my future wife, I was invited to her aunt’s house for thanksgiving. I noticed a picture on a bulletin board of someone that looked like Gordon Moore, but with more hair. I’d met him multiple times as a supplier to Intel.

I asked how she had the picture. She said she dated him in high school but dumped him as he was a dreamer and wasn’t going to account for anything. She ended up marrying a dentist. He would be a good provider.

She knew nothing about tech. I didn’t have the heart to tell her how rich he was.
 
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bobyoung53 said:
I just had surgery for Dupuytren's contracture today, left ring finger. I've had it for over thirty years, but it just got bad over the past 10 or so. I tried to have it done three times before and something always got in the way, moved out of state, insurance, and lately the pandemic. I'm not sure how long I'll have to lay off, I was told about a month last time, but I'm very happy to have finally had the surgery. I'll need PT also.
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I hope you have a swift and painless recovery, don't let the recovery period and the PT period get you down. :)
 
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PaleAngel_90 said:
I hope you have a swift and painless recovery, don't let the recovery period and the PT period get you down. :)
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Thanks, I'm a pretty optimistic person usually. So far all I'm taking is Naproxen and it really doesn't hurt much at all anymore. I'm surprised as it hurt like heck yesterday when they first woke me up, I asked for something and they gave me a shot. I can already open the finger up pretty much all the way, they told me to move the fingers around, so that's heartening. First thing I do is I'm going to buy a good guitar, I haven't been able to chord for a long time. Nice Gibby of course. I've been thinking two pickup Les Paul Special or Standard.
 
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I posted a little about that one last week.

It's an Epi IV body with a 32" medium scale neck from an Ibanez.

I built the headstock onto the Ibanez neck with maple, narrowed and reshaped the neck to my liking.

Body was sunburst originally. I sprayed it with pearl white lacquer. The pickups are chinabucker.

Relocated bridge for med scale. made it string through because that lets me use long scale strings on it. Lots more to choose from that way.
 
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I need advice on this one, shop is in Belgium: Epiphone Thunderbird IV Vintage Sunburst 4 String Bass – 2016 – Very Good Condition | Reverb

Seems legit, adjunting additional 2 pictures:

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JIO said:
What's the string-thru one?
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I posted a little about that one last week.

It's an Epi IV body with a 32" medium scale neck from an Ibanez.

I built the headstock onto the Ibanez neck with maple, narrowed and reshaped the neck to my liking.

Body was sunburst originally. I sprayed it with pearl white lacquer. The pickups are chinabucker.

Relocated bridge for med scale. made it string through because that lets me use long scale strings on it. Lots more to choose from that way
 
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WillyW said:
167 feedback as a seller is a good sign

did your munny come through?
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WillyW said:
167 feedback as a seller is a good sign

did your munny come through?
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Yup, got it back today early morning, I'm 30€ short though... Would've to wait till next week to buy if it still was up for sale, though with such good offer who knows how long it'll be available...
 
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