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I've got a small deck of punch cards round here somewhere, kept them years ago as a reminder of 70s tech when I graduated. Once thing I don't have, and glad not to, was the old crt terminal and loaf of bread size modem used for connecting from home when oncall. Darn thing was carried around in a case the size, and weigh, of an old 20 inch crt TV. We only had one and the rest of the then team didn't want to do weekly oncall that each evening someone took it home then brought it back the next day for the next guy. Real pain to haul around...
 
NutmegCT said:
Mike - congrats on being able to take that Great Leap Forward!

With all your computer background, you might recognize this even tho' it's before your time - an image created from punch cards and a light pen on the DoD SAGE system in the late 1950s.

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The first "computer graphic"

Best wishes for your new retirement life!
Tom M.
a/k/a Curmudgeonly Master of Useless Information
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I’ve seen that IRL!
 
Mike - one of the benefits of retirement: I haven't worn a wristwatch in 20 years!
 
I eased into retirement quite slowly. I went from full-time employment to part-time consulting where I said "Why didn't I do this 20 years ago?" When annual bike to work days would come around, I said 'I'm not riding my bike: walking to my bike is longer than walking to my desk."
 
NutmegCT said:
I haven't worn a wristwatch in 20 years!
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I never liked wearing one.
Now with a cell phone I get all the data I need.
I only wish it would tell me the day of the week at a glance.
Now I need to open the calendar app.
 
equiprx said:
I never liked wearing one.
Now with a cell phone I get all the data I need.
I only wish it would tell me the day of the week at a glance.
Now I need to open the calendar app.
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I quite sure you can go into "settings" and place the day of the week on your home screen.
 
Congratulations, Mike!

Are you planning on staying at the eastern edge of the continent now? Or heading back "inland"?
 
Gliderman8 said:
I quite sure you can go into "settings" and place the day of the week on your home screen.
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I would need a ten year old to show me how.
 
Good for you.I'm considering it either next year,or the year after,
but I still want to work a couple of days a week.It seems weird to
me to not work at all.
Any good advice?
 
Doug - I always tell friends: Don't just retire from something. Retire into something new.
 
AngliaGT said:
It seems weird to
me to not work at all.
Any good advice?
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If you retire you will wonder how you ever got anything done before.
Since retiring in 2013 I haven't had a moments leisure.
Before then I got to go on vacation.
 
equiprx said:
I only wish it would tell me the day of the week at a glance.
Now I need to open the calendar app.
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That's weird. On my phone, I just double tap my screen when it is off ans the time and date appears for about 5 seconds then goes back to sleep.
 
equiprx said:
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I only wish it would tell me the day of the week at a glance.
Now I need to open the calendar app.
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Steve - I use an Android phone. At the top, I see a line showing the time at the left. If I drag that line down, I see the time, date, and day of the week.

Hope this helps.
Tom M.
 
DrEntropy said:
Congratulations, Mike!

Are you planning on staying at the eastern edge of the continent now? Or heading back "inland"?
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I'm already in SW Ohio, grew up here, went to college in the general area and have worked here for the last 42 more or less years. Now, I did when I got out of college back the start of the 80s spent a couple years on the west coast in LA working for Hughes Aircraft. Was an interesting experience to do but couldn't see the expenses of getting a house ever working out. Plus being away while my grandmother and parents aged.
 
NutmegCT said:
Steve - I use an Android phone. At the top, I see a line showing the time at the left. If I drag that line down, I see the time, date, and day of the week.

Hope this helps.
Tom M.
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME????
I have had these phones for about 5 years and didn't know that.
Thanks, it worked.
You know what that means, my phones are due to get not supported and I'll be forced to upgrade.
 
I had to replace my flip phone with a newer flip phone,& there was
no owner's manual for it.I guess they don't have those anymore.
I even went to the phone store that sells these,& the young kid that
I talked to didn't have a clue on how to do anything with it.
 
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