ORIGINAL: Semisane
Every time I had a train ride or extended time waiting on a communte, I pulled upthe site on my blackberry. I just couldn't bare to miss anything.
It's hard to believe where technology has taken us. In the early 1970's I had a job in Okinawa as a civilian employee of the Dept. of Army. When I arrived everyone in the office was excited because the post exchange had just got in a shipment of the newly developed Texas Instruments battery operated electronic calculators that had -WOW - like 16 functions. Of course, if you wanted to make a telephone call back to the States you had to get on the schedule forone of the bases long distance lines.
I remember those calculators. I had one of the Hewlett Packard 33-E's. The calculator was the only reason why I got through college calculus. At the time it was the only calculator you could turn off and it would retain what you put in it. I remember the Calculus teacher would check every one's calculator when they entered the room to make sure they were turned off. It sure saved me a lot of sleepless night because I did not have to memorize the integral formulas of calculus. And I will admit that I have never used them since. Tom.