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db5 wrote:So I am proud to be exacty as unhip today as I was 25 years ago.

A common 'problem' with engineer types! [/quote]

This is the real test for engineer types. Does he have one of these?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-CLEAR-PLAST ... 0401994999
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An engineer will have a drafting pencil in thar!

JPG wrote:

db5 wrote:So I am proud to be exacty as unhip today as I was 25 years ago.

A common 'problem' with engineer types!

This is the real test for engineer types. Does he have one of these?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-CLEAR-PLAST ... 0401994999
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An engineer will have a drafting pencil in thar! [/quote]

And should also have a slide rule hanging from his belt.

Gazillion function calculator, yes, slide rule, not any more!

Guys, guys, guys!

You gotta realize that engineering fashions have changed since the days of Apollo 13 (as beautifully recreated by Tom Hanks).

Who needs a pen or pencil anymore? Most meetings are held in a conference room with a keyboard and projector, or else around someone's PC. Info is zapped around electronically. Truth be told, I sometimes do still take handwritten notes. But those rarely get properly organized, and are not computer-searchable, so I generally avoid them. Anything handwritten that actually has any long-term value gets photographed by the modern engineer's portable toolkit (see photo below), where it is automatically pushed to the "cloud" and later organized.
And being a bit more hands-on than many modern engineers, I also tote the portable multifunction tool shown below, in my laptop case. Who needs a toolbox?

Not that I am complaining, on my thread, because I sure can turn ones direction, but this has gone 270*
You forgot the 6" "General" ruler with the clip on it, front side scale, 32nds and 64ths, back side Fractions to Decimal equivalents to 64ths.

ERLover wrote:Not that I am complaining, on my thread, because I sure can turn ones direction, but this has gone 270*
You forgot the 6" "General" ruler with the clip on it, front side scale, 32nds and 64ths, back side Fractions to Decimal equivalents to 64ths.

Similar to this?

BuckeyeDennis wrote:

ERLover wrote:Not that I am complaining, on my thread, because I sure can turn ones direction, but this has gone 270*
You forgot the 6" "General" ruler with the clip on it, front side scale, 32nds and 64ths, back side Fractions to Decimal equivalents to 64ths.

Similar to this?

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Thats it, mine By General!!! No MMs on mine though. One of those in my Pocket Protector too. God, us Engineers sure are Anal Retentive

ERLover wrote:

BuckeyeDennis wrote:

ERLover wrote:Not that I am complaining, on my thread, because I sure can turn ones direction, but this has gone 270*
You forgot the 6" "General" ruler with the clip on it, front side scale, 32nds and 64ths, back side Fractions to Decimal equivalents to 64ths.

Similar to this?

image.jpeg

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Thats it, mine By General!!! No MMs on mine though. One of those in my Pocket Protector too. God, us Engineers sure are Anal Retentive

"Us"? Well that would explain the 'spelling'.

JPG wrote:Gazillion function calculator, yes, slide rule, not any more!

I was referring to the pocket protector era.

I used pocket protectors when I worked in an auto parts warehouse back in the '70's. When I would bend over to pick something up a pen would fall out, and when I reached down to pick up that pen all the rest would go too followed by the pocket protector.
Then I got one of these, and no more problems the clip held the pens in the protector and the protector in the pocket.