relative age

From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo_at_wincom.net>
Date: Fri Oct 24 06:57:46 1997

At 03:20 PM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> 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
>
>
        In one of my old dictionarys.... "Fools'cap n a size of paper, 17 x 13 1/2
inches, which used to have as its watermark a fool's cap and bells."
        This is disappointing, as I had in mind that it might have just been a
convenient size of paper for the teacher to form into a dunce cap for her
less able students.

                                                        Cheers
                                                        Charlie Fox
Received on Fri Oct 24 1997 - 06:57:46 BST