Hard to watch what we grew up with fade away

[mlh]

On the other hand guys 40 years ago did you ever think you would be commutating with hundreds of people all over the US on a telephone by way of a tower miles away. And you could ask it almost any question and it could find the answer and lead you to any address in the country. I don't think I won't to go back to changing spark plugs and besides my business would NOT survive.
Lynwood

[TLightning]

These days it's hard to watch the news.

[WaltBennett]

Ugh - unless it's BBC or NPR it isn't news anyway.

[Justme44]

I'm with you Walt ... in'64 I was in Tokyo with row after row of Crypto equipment and if I didn't burn myself on a hot tube I wasn't doing my job. I even had a slip-stick in my locker. I tell people I started in computers before people could spell computers.
Dennis

[richfaa]

We still have our Epson slide rule Leather case and instruction book. The first Texas Instruments calculators were way to expensive.

[mlh]

I remember starting out in a machine shop. If you wonted 6 holes in a bolt circle you had to figure where each hole went. There was a lot of math invlloved. Now I tell the CNC machine or CADCAM program where the first hole is the diameter of the bolt circle, done. I can't even remember what the math was. When I started there were no electronic calculators.
With CNC machines we put out more work in my shop with two people than we did with ten people when I started out. Not only more work but better in every way. CNC equipment lets the designer design what would like instead of what can be made. With CNC almost any thing can be made.
Lynwood