Re: Schools banning laptops discussion
In the early '70's, TI introduced the Datamath a basic 4 function "pocket" calculator that was way too big for any pocket. It would add, subract, multiply and divide and ate 9 volt batteries like they were going out of style. They were a hot item. Those who had friends at TI could sometimes get them to get a refurbished on from their company store for half price.
I finally got one in about '74 when they had ramped up production enough that the price had dropped. By the time I had gone back to Graduate School they were everywhere and the old slip sticks were gone. That was in the summer of '75. Had one class that the instructor would not allow the use of calculators and the students whined about it for a while. His quizes didn't divide out evenly either. The first exam, I went all the way through it, looked around and all the other students who were about 10 years younger were still going at it, so I went though the exam a second time, found and corrected a few errors. I was still the first one out of the room. Turns out the instructor and I were the only ones who could really do long division.
I'll bet few of our younger members even know what that is.
I finally got one in about '74 when they had ramped up production enough that the price had dropped. By the time I had gone back to Graduate School they were everywhere and the old slip sticks were gone. That was in the summer of '75. Had one class that the instructor would not allow the use of calculators and the students whined about it for a while. His quizes didn't divide out evenly either. The first exam, I went all the way through it, looked around and all the other students who were about 10 years younger were still going at it, so I went though the exam a second time, found and corrected a few errors. I was still the first one out of the room. Turns out the instructor and I were the only ones who could really do long division.
I'll bet few of our younger members even know what that is.
Re: Schools banning laptops discussion
Hey Piyush !!
No , Piyush, rgreen is talking about YOU, the younger members,LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rg! , I can sooo relate to that story. I bought my first calc. in '72 . Paid an ENORMOUS
amount of money for it. $100.00 was like a months pay for a student back then.
My teacher in accounting (I did start in that discipline) was adamant . NO CALCs in
his classroom. Boy what a let down. But , as you well know , we were still using it
anyways.
Fun Times. These were the BEST years of my life. A girlfriend on my arm,(now my wife. MPH, REMEMBER!)
a car to go to college with and good friends to party with. What more could anyone ask for?/?
FLASHORN.
Patience is life.
Re: Schools banning laptops discussion
Flashorn -
I started off in Electrical Engineering and finished in Finance. Of course that's a very time sensitive discipline and if you don't practice it for six months, your behind the curve. I spent almost 6 years flying in the Navy and when I got back, my degree was obsolete. I went into Personnel and hated it, went to Grad School and got my MBA in Accounting, where I have spent the last 32 years, working in the paper industry.
That course I was speaking of the the first half of Intermediate Accounting which I was taking as a PostGraduate student before actually starting the Grad School courses to give me a good foundation. The school (Texas A&M) had once been an all male school and at this time was still about 80% male, and had a saying about this course that is not repeatable in polite society, so I won't. But it was the course that at the end of the course, you were serious or changed majors.
I found I was much more serious in Grad School, but then 10 years in the real world has that affect on you. I at least had the car in Grad School, as an undergraduate I didn't get my first car until my Senior year.
Piyush -
They may, but 30 years ago, the young undergraduates in that course were struggling. We'll have to find out from some of our younger members over here. Of couse it could be that they hadn't had to do it for a few years and I had done it for more than a decade at that point. Plus the fact that I was always numerically inclined and some of them were challenged in that area, about half of them changed majors at the end of the semester.
I started off in Electrical Engineering and finished in Finance. Of course that's a very time sensitive discipline and if you don't practice it for six months, your behind the curve. I spent almost 6 years flying in the Navy and when I got back, my degree was obsolete. I went into Personnel and hated it, went to Grad School and got my MBA in Accounting, where I have spent the last 32 years, working in the paper industry.
That course I was speaking of the the first half of Intermediate Accounting which I was taking as a PostGraduate student before actually starting the Grad School courses to give me a good foundation. The school (Texas A&M) had once been an all male school and at this time was still about 80% male, and had a saying about this course that is not repeatable in polite society, so I won't. But it was the course that at the end of the course, you were serious or changed majors.
I found I was much more serious in Grad School, but then 10 years in the real world has that affect on you. I at least had the car in Grad School, as an undergraduate I didn't get my first car until my Senior year.
Piyush -
They may, but 30 years ago, the young undergraduates in that course were struggling. We'll have to find out from some of our younger members over here. Of couse it could be that they hadn't had to do it for a few years and I had done it for more than a decade at that point. Plus the fact that I was always numerically inclined and some of them were challenged in that area, about half of them changed majors at the end of the semester.
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