I can't even give away CRT monitors anymore

[RgrF]

During my Catholic school days, slide rules were third tier disciplinary tools, backups to rulers that were in turn back ups to paint sticks. Oh wait those weren't slide rules, they were abacuses.

It often caused a row when they broke one over some part of your body and then asked the parents to pay for it.

[chopper]

The small local catholic school here has been 1-2-3 kids away from closing the last 2-3 years. They seem to scrape by, but even with large enrollment in the public schools, and seemingly plenty of kids, no one wants to subject their kids to that these days, or few anyway.

[Mike Sellers]

silvarios wrote:
Comcast going all digital (although around here, there is still an analog option) doesn't require a new TV.


Nathan

Yeah, but you have to have a box and Comcast only gives out two additional converters per house. All others, you have to pay $10 a month for. Since the change, there has been a flood of older analog TVs in garage sales.

[AAA]

davester wrote:
I'm having the same difficulty with punch cards and slide rule instruction booklets.

I would LOVE to learn how to use a slide rule. Can you send it to me?
I never had the foggiest idea how to. Always envied those that did.

Next stop, speaking Latin!

[rz]

It's been like that for a few years at the live auctions I go to. Used to be (about 5+ years ago) a 15" CRT would fetch around $10. I have seen an auctioneer try to give away an entire shelf of about 15 CRT monitors for $0 and get no takers. The only way he can get rid of them is to sell them with a working computer.

[Rolando]

Wanna get rid of something. Put it on yer curb with a sign that says "$50". Theives will be getting a bargain!

[Buck]

I used to be a slide rule wizard.

[mrbigstuff]

$10 to have someone take the thing away here, apparently proving the market for CRTs is now in the negative.

[Mac1337]

How about CRT TVs?

[Tofer]

AAA wrote:
[quote=davester]
I'm having the same difficulty with punch cards and slide rule instruction booklets.

I would LOVE to learn how to use a slide rule. Can you send it to me?
I never had the foggiest idea how to. Always envied those that did.

Next stop, speaking Latin!
As a high school physics teacher, I have a slide rule in my desk, and on the first day of class I pass it around and ask if anyone knows what it is. About half the time someone knows, but most of the time nobody does. Then, I explain what it is ("a calculator before the calculator!" ), and then I tell the kids that if they forget their calculator on test day, I'll simply give them the slide rule. One kid learned how to use it (I think Wikipedia has a good page), and he never needed to worry about forgetting his calculator. He did pretty well with it, too.

After the AP exam a couple of years ago, I found a bunch of slide rules in an old cabinet, so I sat down with my graduating seniors, and we all learned how to use one. It was a lot of fun, and they started to appreciate how useful the slide rule was in its day.

-Tofer