Re: OT: Boy do things change fast now days.

Posted by john d on January 27, 2006 at 08:57:49 from (69.212.185.170):

In Reply to: OT: Boy do things change fast now days. posted by Kelly C on January 27, 2006 at 07:06:20:

When I went back to Purdue after Christmas break during my freshman year, there was a guy in my dorm who had a brand new pocket calculator. It was the first one that I (and most of the other guys) had seen. We sat around that Sunday evening admiring it and playing with it. After all, we were doing our physics and chemistry problems with slide rules!
Jim's family had lots of $$$ and his mom had given it to him for Christmas. It was about 5" long, nearly 4" wide, and over an inch thick. I remember it ran on "C" size flashlight batteries.
All it would do was add, subtract, multipy, divide, and.... (WONDER OF WONDERS) square root! Jim's mother had shelled out over $400 for this gadget, in a day when the minimum wage was $1.50 per hour. That much money today in comparison to the minimum wage will buy a very respectable computer.

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