Old Enough To Remember?

Superdirk said:
No idea what's on the bottom right & left.. Ahh to feel young again.. or ignorant. whatever
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Bottom left is a nutcracker/picker set. We used these every year when my Grandfather's walnut trees produced. Took forever to clean out the shells with the little picks but little of the nut was wasted. We still have the nutcracker itself. no idea where the picks got off to.
 
Oldbikefixr said:
Bottom left is a nutcracker/picker set. We used these every year when my Grandfather's walnut trees produced. Took forever to clean out the shells with the little picks but little of the nut was wasted. We still have the nutcracker itself. no idea where the picks got off to.
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Yep, a ton of work, which I no longer do. But the walnuts from my tree were so much better flavor and way different than storebought.
 
The last post got me thinking about an incident that happened when I was about 10-12 years old. Where I lived in California we were right next to the old Fort Ord Army base. My friends and I used to sneak into the base and play in the hills. We used to find thousands of rounds of blank unfired bullet cartridges left in the hills during war games. We would take these blank cartridges and tape a BB onto the primer and tape a streamer to the bullet and throw them up in the air. The bullet would explode upon hitting the ground with a loud bang and throw shrapnel, it is lucky we never got hurt doing this. I was at least 40 years old when my dad finally discovered how the windshield in his brand new Pontiac TransAm got blown out - LOL.
 
Was working with my old lighttable yesterday, with its moving rulers, markings in Didot and came to the conclusion that the worst thing about working with old technology is not having to learn and figure out how it works, but remembering how it works.
 
billo said:
Old enough to remember using a slide rule in college. Few could afford the new LED calculators of the time (early 70's). Saw one die at the half hour - on a midterm. Priceless!
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I remember being required to purchase a Texas Instrument TI 57 for a series of 4 statistics courses I had to take.

This was a big bucks purchase for me and exams were written on the premise you had one and knew how to use it properly


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billo said:
Old enough to remember using a slide rule in college. Few could afford the new LED calculators of the time (early 70's). Saw one die at the half hour - on a midterm. Priceless!
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I learned how to use a slide rule at school and literally had the: „you won’t always have an electric calculator with you…!“ Lesson. That did not age well I suppose.
But my father had one, given to him by his instructor back in the fifties.
It was lovely, English made, of course. In a Green leather holster. Made from jet black ebony wood and a (I believe it to be) ivory scale.
The story was that it was Victorian and already an antique. Knowing it was safe where it was I left it with step mum when he died.
Recently I went to claim it only to find that out of sheer painful ignorance she had thrown it away. Along with other treasures that belonged to me.
 
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