csb
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If there's no more glue sniffing, what am I supposed to do when I'm bored at work?
Going, going, gone.
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Wolverine
Uncanny Pompadour
csb
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That game rocks...I enjoyed hearing the little screams!
maryannette
Wise One
real "blue" prints - with ammonia development
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MGX
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Are you referring to the blueprints being white lines on blue background or blue lines on white background?
The company I left 2 years ago still issues blueprint packages to this day. The old machine died 7 or 8 years ago, we thought they would replace it with a copier, they somehow found another print machine that worked and bought it... PITA to get packages out, one sheet at a time, 1 minute per sheet, hand fed...
And you gotta love the smell... In my oilfield days, I had to run blueline copies of the well logs after I was finished, by hand, sometimes for 3 to 4 hours if the oil company wanted a lot of copies, or if we had run numerous logs on a very deep well. I can still remember that particular, stinging pain of an ammonia-laced papercut in the web between the fingers, which happened almost every time while trying to guide the papre/film combo through the machine as fast as it would take it (not to mention the burning of those cuts while running the next film through the developer and fixer baths, without gloves of course). And I'll never be able to forget the smell.
DVINNY
2-time 10K winner
The company I left 5 years ago still had the old DIETZGEN amonia blueprint machine.
I got high many times running prints on it. We used reverse paper, so the paper was white and the lines were blue. Very good looking set of prints though, but not worth the effort.
I got high many times running prints on it. We used reverse paper, so the paper was white and the lines were blue. Very good looking set of prints though, but not worth the effort.
anyone remember computer "punch" cards?
I actually used those in my fortran class in college. It was big news when we got terminals for the mainframe so we didn't have to run "batch card" programs anymore. You had to wait over night to have you program run, only to pick up the output and see that you missed a formatting space or something equally stupid which caused the program to crash. Our company had a punch card table. I didn't get trashed until ~2000.
I know....I'm old.
I actually used those in my fortran class in college. It was big news when we got terminals for the mainframe so we didn't have to run "batch card" programs anymore. You had to wait over night to have you program run, only to pick up the output and see that you missed a formatting space or something equally stupid which caused the program to crash. Our company had a punch card table. I didn't get trashed until ~2000.
I know....I'm old.
snickerd3
Taking suggestions
I hear the old punch card/fortan stories at work anytime computers are brought up. I didn't use punch cards, but I did take fortran in college to satisfy the CS requirement.
csb
Well-known member
Apple IIgs- this was the computer from my youth and they are very much not around anymore. My iPod has 200 times the storage of that old computer. I remember the day we got a hard drive and it was pretty exciting...we no longer needed the boot disk and now had...brace yourself...1MB of storage! My TI-89 also features 1MB of storage.
Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
When I took Computers in HS, they made us do punch cards first before they let us on the state of the art Apple IIe.
Dad said it wasn't unusual for the office a-hole to get a few extra punches on his cards from aggravated co-workers.
Dang, I took Basic, Basic-A, QBasic, Pascal, Fortran, and C++ classes at one time or another...
I toured my first computer lab in the spring of 1983. A couple friends and I were screwing around during the demonstration and were scolded, "Pay attention! How do you expect to learn computers if you don't know how to use a punch card?"
ld-025:
maryannette
Wise One
Me, too. I used punch cards in high school and college. If I had been in college a few years later and had access to a terminal, I might have stayed in Computer Science.
MGX
Well-known member
I still use an old diazo machine with anhydrous ammonia to run copies of drawings because our 16 year old plotter coughs out 1 drawing per hour.
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maryannette
Wise One
Capt Worley PE
Run silent, run deep
I still have a few folks that submit hand drawn, blue line blueprints for review.
wilheldp_PE
PE, LEED AP, SPAM KING
I'd feel horrible marking up a hand-drawn blueprint. Think of the amount of time it takes to reproduce them.
snickerd3
Taking suggestions
the candy dots on the sheets of paper. Haven't seen those in forever. Super good though.
