Apache Hawk 60642 Posted December 18, 2010 Posted December 18, 2010 Somewhere around here I have a Post Versalog slip stick from high school and my old drafting set including an engineer's rule, triangles, protractors, metal templates, and French curves. I have a couple of the pencil sharpeners with the sandpaper cones, too. "French Curves", ya say ............. Saw a few french curves in Pairs..Thought I'd go blind wif de-light !!!
G. P. Cobb Posted December 18, 2010 Posted December 18, 2010 That EMP is a very real worry. any of the third world nuclear powers could take out civilization. With a couple of high altitude nukes. Every computer, including those in your automobiles is toast and cannot be repaired. Now what? _________________ Seriously? How deep does that go? Not that gas can be pumped; but our chainsaws, lawnmowers and lots of powerplants have chips? Or do you mean complete computers like Autos and Tractors?
Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 Posted December 18, 2010 Posted December 18, 2010 Sounds kinda Buck Rogers-ish to me... On a lighter note, I was watching an old Star Trek episode a while back, and there was ol' Spock, standin' on the bridge of the Enterprise, holdin' a Jepesen analog flight computer! Wonder what his 23rd century contemporaries woulda thought of THAT~!
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted December 18, 2010 Posted December 18, 2010 How many young people today know how to use their analog watch as a compass when in a pinch. Point the hour hand towards the sun and half way between the hour hand and 12 o'clock is due south. Learned that 50 years ago when I joined the military. Don't know how many young folks wear analog watches today...I still do.
Apache Hawk 60642 Posted December 19, 2010 Posted December 19, 2010 Lecherous old codger! You are rat.....as always !!!
Pack Saddle Slim, SASS #73122 Posted December 19, 2010 Posted December 19, 2010 How many young people today know how to use their analog watch as a compass when in a pinch. Point the hour hand towards the sun and half way between the hour hand and 12 o'clock is due south. Learned that 50 years ago when I joined the military. Don't know how many young folks wear analog watches today...I still do. I still wear one...and it's "railroad approved" as well. Also, I even knew how to find south. As was mentioned earlier, how many kids can even tell time on an analog watch? My wife taught first grade and teaching her students to tell time was part of the curriculum. I wonder when that will become a thing of the past, too.
Alpo Posted December 19, 2010 Posted December 19, 2010 How many young people today know how to use their analog watch as a compass when in a pinch. Point the hour hand towards the sun and half way between the hour hand and 12 o'clock is due south. Learned that 50 years ago when I joined the military. Don't know how many young folks wear analog watches today...I still do. If you have a digital watch, you can still do it, providing you know what a clockface looks like. Draw one. Draw it on a piece of paper and you can rotate it to work. If no paper, draw it in the dirt. Just orient it correctly.
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