[AT] Blizzard of '78

[Larry Goss]

LOL!  At one time, I had the regulation pool table in our rec room stacked with old computers and related equipment a little more than a foot deep.  I had one item -- JUST ONE -- that a friend was interested in.  He asked how much I wanted for it?  I told him it was free one one condition -- he had to take everything on the table.  He had a big boat of a four-door sedan, and he went home absolutely ecstatic about the good deal he made.  He told me later that his mother boxed his ears unmercifully because of all the junk he hauled home from my place.  :-)

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011 11:01
Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> I am sitting here looking at my Otis King Calculator Model L. 
> This is a
> slide rule that looks something like an antique telescope. It 
> sits on a
> shelf with some other antiquities from the the days of BC (Before
> Calculators). <http://www.svpal.org/~dickel/OK/OtisKing.html>
> 
> And I still have a few other slide rules tucked away in the back 
> of desk
> drawers (along with 9.6 modems, 5 1/2" floppy drives, fountain 
> pens, dot
> matrix printer ribbons, rolls of adding machine paper, etc.) And 
> out in 
> the barn is a perfectly good Kaypro "portable" computer (except 
> that I 
> don't have the operating system floppy for it).
> 
> Mike
> 
> On 1/29/2011 10:59 AM, Larry Goss wrote:
> > Anybody need a slide rule?  I still have my collection 
> stored under
> > the stairs in a utility closet.  My 6-foot classroom 
> slide rule is
> > stored on top of the wall cabinets in my office -- for 
> emergency use
> > when the power goes off and my batteries go dead!
> >
> > Larry
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