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^^ I think that's what I had. With a folding brown plastic cover...
I probably have it somewhere, but it died, I had two of them and neither one would work. |
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I found this in my drawer the other day. It recently died but I liked it enough to keep it around.
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I still have my HP 42s. I run the Free-42 app on my tablet. I still have Excalibur 32-bit on my work computers...
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You guys with the dead calculators - try percussive maintenance. It's worked for me several times.
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I'm actually sad that I don't have mine now. It's 50% nostalgia, 50% pathetic/why would you care.
I carried that little thing to school for years and used it all day long. |
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I still use this Radio Shack EC-4014 calculator nearly daily at work. The battery has been dead for many years but the solar still powers it on. I think this was a replacement for a lost calculator near the end of college days in the mid-late 80's. I used it for many years then at my old first machine design job and still use it to this day.
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I picked up one of my guitars from having a little spa type work, setup, frets polished.. noisy pots cleaned.. Got to talking with the owner about old tools and such... and since we hit it off he gave me a ruler that he got from an old timer who work at DuPont..
Interestingly it has a dimension correction for temp, however, it doesn't indicate the temp.. 9/32in/ft on a 2 foot rule http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1730837871.jpg http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1730837871.jpg |
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Here’s my Casio from HS. Would have been mid 80’s, so 40 years old! Still works fine, although the spline of the case has a split in it, the ribbon cable going between the sides is good.
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Also the rule I was just gifted has 10th of inches on one side, and 50ths on the other.. yet the temp correction is given as a fraction (32nds)
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Shrink rulers were used by pattern makers,
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we used to eff around with people and give them shrink rulers without telling them. The other prank was to loan out the 'production' stopwatch. It looked like minutes/seconds but it was minutes and hundreds of minutes.
So 1:50 was actually 1M 30S. It made people panic about their machine cycle time. |
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