relative age

From: PG Manney <manney_at_nwohio.com>
Date: Thu Oct 23 14:20:05 1997

> You folks are all young sprouts... when I was in H.S. (1938) our AV
>equipment was a wind up phonograph (disks, not cylinders,) and a lantern
>slide projector. Once someone from Bell Telephone brought in a movie
>projector and showed films! Calculations? they were done with a pencil on
>"foolscap". And no, I didn't have Socrates for a teacher.

I went through HS on a slide rule. Someone brought in an electromechanical
calculator to my math class, and I fell in love with it. <sigh>

ps Where did "Foolscap" get its name? E-mail me... (extremely off-topic)

manney_at_nwohio.com
Received on Thu Oct 23 1997 - 14:20:05 BST