Remember when...

[JeepDiver]

Just went back a page and saw the overhead projectors, and the question about what they use now. Before I retired, some amazing "white boards" were just starting to be used in the schools. I'm not sure what they all did and how they could be used, but I believe that what was written on the board could be copied and printed on 8.5 X 11 paper and handed out, or even downloaded to the student's computer.

glenn514

Now the teachers can write on their tablet, and it shows up on the white board at the front of class. They can still print, but they can also email a distro list with the image on the board.

 

[Misplaced_Canuck]

Sounds like you have me beat by just a few years. This is what I was rockin in High School. Nobody disputed my math skillz!

My co-worker JUST (last month) upgraded his (like above) to a Droid watch(!)

MC

 

[russrob81]

http://m.wbaltv.com/news/Police-Man...en/-/17427430/19314696/-/mrwryoz/-/index.html

This was hilarious

 

[OrdinaryAvgGuy]

http://m.wbaltv.com/news/Police-Man...en/-/17427430/19314696/-/mrwryoz/-/index.html

This was hilarious

meeh... don't get it.

 

[fuzzy2133]

Just went back a page and saw the overhead projectors, and the question about what they use now. Before I retired, some amazing "white boards" were just starting to be used in the schools. I'm not sure what they all did and how they could be used, but I believe that what was written on the board could be copied and printed on 8.5 X 11 paper and handed out, or even downloaded to the student's computer.

glenn514

My high school had a few of those in 98-2000. That was when it was really new and cutting edge. So cutting edge we the students were learning how to use them faster than the teachers that had to be "specially trained" to operate the unit. I think the art teachers were to only ones to really use 100% of the units capabilities. Probably a different story now 13years later.

 

[glenn514]

The school associated with the congregation I served was just beginning to install those "smart" white boards when I retired in 2009. The only teacher who really knew how to use them was the junior high science teacher...and she did a fantastic job! Me? I have no clue!

glenn514

 

[Revvy]

The school associated with the congregation I served was just beginning to install those "smart" white boards when I retired in 2009. The only teacher who really knew how to use them was the junior high science teacher...and she did a fantastic job! Me? I have no clue!

glenn514

The modern version is amazing.



We don't have them at the medschool yet, but we use a version of the same software by SMART technologies on the monitors the teachers use in the classrooms and lecturehalls to draw on the screen.

 

[bleme]

The modern version is amazing.

Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISevviuEsn4

We don't have them at the medschool yet, but we use a version of the same software by SMART technologies on the monitors the teachers use in the classrooms and lecturehalls to draw on the screen.

I don't know. Looks like a waste of money to me...

 

[Beernik]

When we moved buildings someone thought it would be a brilliant idea to get a smartboard.

Nobody uses it.

 

[Varmintman]

I am still lusting over that watch. But it would take a huge version or I would have to carry around a magnifying glass to see the numbers and buttons

 

[OrdinaryAvgGuy]

Drug Abuse Resistance Education

 

[Cider123]

Then and now:

Televisions. If you were to give a brand new plasma TV a good whack, it would probably break it. Back in the 1970's giving your TV a good whack was how you fixed it.

How about this sucker? Could it be used as a laptop?

 

[glenn514]

What subject did you teach?

My undergraduate degree is a B.A. in Education. All of my teaching was done in schools of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. At the beginning of my career, I taught seventh grade...ALL subjects. I was also the music director for the entire congregation. My master's degree is in the field of church music.

I realized, after about 15 years of work, that I could NOT teach full-time and also direct ALL of the music of the church and school. For the final twelve years of my service, I taught ONE classroom music course, but directed three choirs, three handbell choirs, two bands, and planned 80% of the music for the congregation's worship, in addition to playing FOUR services on a normal weekend. That kept me out of trouble!

glenn514

 

[clamflats]

The first hand held Texas Instument calculator would add, subtract, multiply and divide cost $600!!! Needless to say that was beyond our reach and Dad did all the town finance reports on a hand crank ten number calculator, it was a large, heavy piece of equipment.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

It is a SPIRIT DUPLICATOR. ...

Yup, a "Ditto Master".

 

[Jacob_Marley]

I'll see you and raise you!

...

Similar to the first computer I ever played on in the mid-1970's. My best friend's dad owned a "computer company" and on the weekends he would bring home on a huge 200lb+ set-up on a big roll-around rack and wee would use a modem (like that one) to plug into the mainframe back at his business and play blackjack and such. The computer had "somehow" learned horrible insults with language that we would never dare use in front of our parents ... to us the foul language made the machine seem even more A.I. !

No mouse ... no monitor ... communicated on the keyboard and read on the printer.

 

[OrdinaryAvgGuy]

Similar to the first computer I ever played on in the mid-1970's. My best friend's dad owned a "computer company" and on the weekends he would bring home on a huge 200lb+ set-up on a big roll-around rack and wee would use a modem (like that one) to plug into the mainframe back at his business and play blackjack and such. The computer had "somehow" learned horrible insults with language that we would never dare use in front of our parents ... to us the foul language made the machine seem even more A.I. !

No mouse ... no monitor ... communicated on the keyboard and read on the printer.

I remember my dad had one of these electric typewriters / word processors. He thought he was pretty cool when he hit the print button and it typed out a letter at like 500 words per min or something.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

I can remember in high school you could get a 1/4 of the good sticky icky for a 20 spot.

Not that I knew anything about it. Just knew this guy.

I think I knew that guy too.

I've been told that once upon a time it was totally customary to hold a purchase in the air and put your hand next to it to measure it in "fingers" and then to negotiate some additional amount to be dropped in as it "looked a little short". Geez, I wonder if they still do that.
And I've been told of the horrible wailing and gnashing of teeth when an ounce went to $40 (!). Such indignation! The nerve.

Seems so long ago ... before the Internet ... before VHS, video games and cable tv.

To get places we walked backwards along the side of roads with one thumb pointed toward the sky ... a strange custom. I must have walked a couple hundred miles backwards in 1976.

 

[Varmintman]

I think I knew that guy too.

I've been told that once upon a time it was totally customary to hold a purchase in the air and put your hand next to it to measure it in "fingers" and then to negotiate some additional amount to be dropped in as it "looked a little short". Geez, I wonder if they still do that.
And I've been told of the horrible wailing and gnashing of teeth when a certain amount went to $40. Such indignation! The nerve.

Seems so long ago ... before the Internet ... before VHS, video games and cable tv.

To get places we walked backwards along the side of roads with one thumb pointed toward the sky ... a strange custom. I must have walked a couple hundred miles backwards in 1976.

Sheesh I knew that same guy I think. I figured it must be some kind of code because 3 fingers in a bag was a lid and cost 20 bucks.....or so I was told

Honestly I loved the 60's and early 70's. I know it sounds wrong but it was a different time back then. Every pickup in the school parking lot had a rifle in the back window and a cooler of beer in the front seat. Now they are going to ban Idaho because if you put it on its side it "looks" like a gun.

Things were better back then.

 

[Jacob_Marley]

Remember eating from these

Reminds me of how much I miss .99cent Burger King Whoppers ... and in fact, if you were "in the know", you would ask for some number of "extra's" (which they actually had a key for on the cash register) and without actually charging you extra money would double, triple, or quadruple the amount of the toppings they put on the Whopper making it ridiculously huge.
"One whopper with extra, extra, extra, extra, extra everything, please."

 

[TxBrew]

I miss the .99 Jumbo Jack. I lived on those when I was in school.

 

[Airplanedoc]

Anybody remember these

 

[OrdinaryAvgGuy]

Anybody remember these

I have one in my kitchen drawer. Come to think of it, I have no idea how it got there.

 

[bleme]

I have one in my kitchen drawer. Come to think of it, I have no idea how it got there.

You stole it from your gramma. Sickening...

 

[iaefebs]

The last Big Mack I ever ate was in one of those Styrofoam packages. Whoppers were 39¢ went to 44¢, then to 49¢ in a hurry. Gas was 25¢ but occasionally went to 19¢. A great car got 5 mpg. The cops were cool, if you got caught with beer you dumped it out. Life at 15- 18 was fun. 1967- 1970 Except for that Vietnam thing. We had a draft lottery, my year they expected to draft to 140 I drew 139. So I sat waiting for the year to end. I think they went to 86 so I was never close.

 

[Vigo_Carpathian]

Balki wants in on this thread

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[Jacob_Marley]

... The cops were cool, if you got caught with beer you dumped it out. ...

Yep, if they didn't make you dump it (aka "plant it") and instead confiscated it but did not write you, you know what they were doing after work that day.

 

[iaefebs]

I remember the drill.

 

[Beernik]

I explained that that to my daughter after she had a lockdown drill.

My how times have changed.

 

[the_bird]

Remember when they actually had music videos on MTV, and not all that "reality" crap they have on it now?