Well, we had an IBM 360 for heavy-duty number crunching: batch jobs in Fortran on punch cards with line-printer output. None of us could afford the new HP35 electronic calculator but we did have a Friden mechanical calculator in the office for routine stuff. It was capable of division and we found that dividing all 6s by all 7s produced a tune we called the Friden March.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT this is amazingly awesome > ... > > Those guys back in the 60s were pioneers and considering the tools they had > (slide rules and Luckies and short haircuts and skinny ties on short-sleeved > white shirts), _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
