GPS

[DEEPNHOCK]

Just go to a Sinclair station and get a free paper map..

[8E45E]

Just go to a Sinclair station and get a free paper map..

How many years ago was that!!?!!

I haven't seen a FREE roadmap at a gas station for over 40 years!

Craig

[wittsend]

Just take a grandkid. They likely have the cellphone - and know how to use it.

[studegary]

I remember reading (may have the details wrong) that the Census Bureau needed to rerun some of the data from the 1930 Census, which were stored on IBM punch cards, and had no reader for the format used on those cards. They ended up borrowing a punch card reader from the Smithsonian Institution and sent it off to IBM, which refurbished it for free (they still had the blueprints and instruction manuals). It's now back in the Smithsonian, ready for use again if needed.

It doesn't seem that long ago . In the 1960s-early 1970s, I was using punch cards and a reader to analyze experiments at IBM.

[Skip Lackie]

It doesn't seem that long ago . In the 1960s-early 1970s, I was using punch cards and a reader to analyze experiments at IBM.

Yes, me too. My office employed a woman who spent 8 hours every day entering data onto punch cards so that they could be analyzed on the room-sized IBM computers of the day. At the time, that was considered to be a good job for those without a college degree.

[sweetolbob]

It doesn't seem that long ago . In the 1960s-early 1970s, I was using punch cards and a reader to analyze experiments at IBM.

Yup!! Learned to program in Fortran IV on those IBM beauties. Punch cards and tape both. Bob

[tim333]

I wish there were this many responses when someone asks a technical question.

[studegary]

I wish there were this many responses when someone asks a technical question.

You don't need a lot of responses to a technical question. You just need one correct answer.

[Jerry Forrester]

Gary, there's almost always one correct answer to every tech question posted on this forum. The problem is, finding it when it's hidden in amongst the 50 or so INCORRECT answers.

[jnormanh]

Gary, there's almost always one correct answer to every tech question posted on this forum. The problem is, finding it when it's hidden in amongst the 50 or so INCORRECT answers.

Jerry nails it. LOL!!!