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Re: The good old days (was Re: textbook prices)



I can not help but recall a particularily brilliant engineer (not
locomotive) at the railroad where I was working that had to do flips and
handstands to get management to buy him just such a calculator at just
that price at just that time.

Joe D. Darling jdarling@emh1.otc.cc.mo.us
Instructor of Physics and Physical Science
Ozarks Technical Community College
1020 East Brower Springfield, MO 65802
(417) 895-7907 (417) 895-7085 FAX

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, John Mallinckrodt wrote:

And I bought a Volkswagen convertible in 1969 for $2399.

And I bought a calculator that could multiply and divide, take powers and
logs, do trig functions, and even had a place to store one number in 1972
for $399. A full $2000 less than that VW.

John
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