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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3815
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: Boats and Tech
Wonder what's changed in my job, a world of charts and course plotting? I doubt few of those doing our jobs now would comprehend how we worked as well with such primitive tools.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1927
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: RE: Boats and Tech
How about learning how to use a slide rule, which dated from the 17th Century
I learned about it in a 12th grade math course; then again in A school; finally in college, for a 3rd time.
Then a scientific TI calculator did away with the slide rule and having to know certain math operations.
Just plug in the numbers and the answer was displayed.
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Old Salt
Posts: 300
Location: Vista, Ca. | Subject: RE: Boats and Tech
What amazed me was when I went on my first cruise after leaving the Navy. I had to be about 25 years ago. We went on Norwiegan Cruise Lines. The Captain set aside a day and time for any one who wanted a tour of the bridge. So I went up and was amazed. Wgen I got there it was just the Captain and me. No lookouts, quartermaster, helmsman, nothing. The Captain was controling this big ship sitting at a table with all these nobs. Technology. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1677
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I know I carried and used a slide rule in school when I thought I was going to become an engineer, but bad memories of me floundering in those classes has erased it from my memory banks. I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to use it after 60 years - come to think of it I might not even be able to use my old TI calculator. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1927
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: RE: Boats and Tech
Gil
You said, "come to think of it I might not even be able to use my old TI calculator."
Ditto for me on both devices. |
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Admin
Posts: 2353
Location: Renton, WA | Subject: RE: Boats and Tech
In nuke school, we had to work out all problems on a slide rule - that was in 1974. I still have that slide rule... have NO F'KNG IDEA how it works anymore 
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3815
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Boats and Tech
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2270
Location: Foothills of the Ozarks | Subject: RE: Boats and Tech
When I went to NucMedTec after Vietnam I had to learn how to use a Sliderule. I still have it and can still do the decay formula.
Edited by Doc Gardner 2025-08-26 6:13 PM
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