[AT] Names that have become generic

[charlie hill]

David I still have my Post Versalog and my CRC manual of Physics and
Chemistry.

As a side note.  I was back in school in the mid 80's taking a refresher
Calculus course.  There was a kid in my class whose dad owned a 2 way
comunications business.  He had the best of everything including a brand new
TI59 mag card programable calculator.  I had to settle for a TI55.  Both
were big by todays standards with LED displays that really ate batteries.

This kid had gotten the professors permission to use his  TI59 in class and
on tests.  He had programmed it to do certain equations.
Some of the class dummies heard him feeding the mag card through it during a
test and protested that he was cheating.  The professor told them that he
had permission to use it and that if anyone  else in the room wanted to buy
one and was smart enough to program it to do the problems that he would give
them an A.

Charlie





Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Myers" <walking_tractor at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Names that have become generic


>
> --- charlie hill <chill8 at cox.net> wrote:
> > What sort of computers were you boys using in '62?
> > There weren't any hand
> > held calculators unitl about 68 and they were
> > hundreds of dollars each to *
> > / + - and hold one constant
> Hey Charlie, just thought of my first experience with
> a computer.  It was a Heathkit (don't even ask what
> model).  Analog box with a bunch of patch cords and
> double banana plug resistors, diodes, etc.  Used an
> oscillascope for a screen.  Did things like a
> 'bouncing ball' and 'projectile trajectory'.  Took a
> week of after school work to get it to do something.
> Didn't understand it but had fun anyhow.  BTW, this
> was about 1968 or so.
> Any real work was on paper or with slide rule (and the
> book of tables from the Handbook of Chemistry and
> Physics.  I was a rather privliged sort, I guess.
> About the same as carrying a laptop around today, I
> would think.
>
>
>
> =====
> Dave Myers
> Paw Paw, Michigan
>
> In the heart of  Michigan's wine country.
>
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