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Brother and I went to engineering school so slide rule was part of our introductory training. The coveted brand was K&E but the majority of students wielded the Japanese Hemmi, made of bamboo so costed a fraction of the American import and also for most conditions, accurate since bamboo accommodated to fluctuating humidity evenly. I never saw an example of a Chinese-made one which Life magazine mentioned in its lampoon of The Great Leap Forward as not reliable, you get 9.1 if you tried squaring 3.​
 
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A perfect fountain pen design, modular in that they are assembled from interchangeable parts, light weight for hands that were not distantly used to writing with a quill, easy and clean ink loading mechanism that holds ample supply that can last a week of heavy writing and good to look at. Pen manufacturers should have stopped right there, look at what they ended up, Montblanc’s humongous dildo of a fountain pen, their Meisterstuck 149.


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Here is Albert Einstein wearing one in his pocket without a protector.
 
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What we used to swipe credit cards​
 
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This is how we used to look up a book in the library

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You of course need a grasp of the Dewey Decimal System to use these. Not to be confused with the duodecimal system which is a positional notation numeral system using twelve as its base.
 
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Oh yes!!! I've stood in front of this these library card boxes thousands of times!!!
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I'll never forget the first time I went to the Library and the card boxes were gone. There was this thing they called a computer sitting there instead. I was lost ! :rofl:
 
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Along with the slide rule that serious engineering students cultivated was using an India ink pen called Tintenkuli. Writing implements tended to get mildly racist names at that time. Mongol lead pencil was another. Anyway, Tintenkuli was considered as suited for technical lettering. Brother actually dropped his standard cursive handwriting and adopted engineering lettering even for his personal life.

 
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I'll never forget the first time I went to the Library and the card boxes were gone. There was this thing they called a computer sitting there instead. I was lost ! :rofl:
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I remember that in the city library in my Swedish home town Karlstad (in English that's Charlestown, named after king Charles IX - a really vicious, brutal, bloody and paranoid kind of king - who granted the very ancient market place Tingvalla its city privilegies in 1584) in between the old traditional card box system and the modern computerized on-line catalogue, they had a real shitty system with microfiche cards and microfiche reading machine.

The really shitty thing about this system was, that the catalogue was never fully up-to-date in the way that the library could have hundreds of recently acquired books you didn't get access to in the public catalogue. The new books wouldn't show up until next month or so when they had a new set of microfiche cards - this was serious shit!
 
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Remember this from grade school?

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The Rubber Squeeze Change Purse






And This orange Floral tote bag was really popular




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First with the men in the armed services

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I almost forgot myself when the button to brighten the headlights on a car was on the floorboard ;)








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