23 Oct
1997
23 Oct
'97
7:20 a.m.
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(a)nwohio.com
23 Oct
23 Oct
9:41 a.m.
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>
You know, I think my generation was the last to learn about using
the slide rule in highschool (I graduated in 1979). In 1975, when I
was a freshman, all students in my school were requied to learn
it; it was part of the ISM (Intro.to Sci. Method) program which all
students had to pass in order to graduate.
When asked "WHY?", school administrators had a plausible answer: "It
teaches you how to read scales and graduations commonly found on lab
equipment."
OK, fair enough. Of course, nowadays I imagine most of the
analytical balances in use are digital . . .
11:57 p.m.
At 03:20 PM 10/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
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
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(a)nwohio.com
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