Strange but I don't believe my children have ever used or seen one of these. Toy :smile: :smile: :huh:
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They must be young! :popcorn:
Quote from: walkstall on March 31, 2013, 07:18:41 PM
They must be young! :popcorn:
In their mid twenties.... Toy :blink:
Quote from: Solars Toy on March 31, 2013, 07:40:15 PM
In their mid twenties.... Toy :blink:
To me that is a very young age. :wink:
I just about freaked the first time I could not find a card catalog in a library. It was like being lobotomized.
Can anyone say, "Dewey Decimal System?" Way back when I went to school, it was presented to us (on crudely carved stone tablets, of course) and the teaching was followed up with a field trip to an actual city/public library where the system was in use.
I am proud to say that our local library (Marysville, OH) still sports a magnificent bank of hand-made wooden drawers full of those little cards that made term papers happen so many years ago.
I had the card catalog in high school, then went to college where the entire library was on database. I will be honest with you, 20 page research papers got done a lot quicker with the help of the database. Plus, it had to happen because students are using online sources so much now.
I was actually hummed when I went to the UofM halfway through my college career and part of their journal library was still only in card catalog. Prof.s would often require 5 current sources, and at least 1 "old" source, forcing you to use the card catalog.
At least I could still use one if I had to, can't say the same for people much younger than me.
When I was a senior in HS, WAY back in the early 70s -- that's 1970s -- one of the best instructors I ever had -- Mrs. Pfeiffer, an Amazon of a woman who ruled her classroom with an iron fist -- gave us a short lecture on the first day of class. In those days, the first widely available hand-held calculators were becoming affordable (if you consider 3-4 days' pay affordable) and three of my classmates had one of the early TIs that would basically add, subtract, multiply, divide, and I think derive a square root... eventually. Bright red LED displays and 9V batteries with a service life measured in minutes. Mrs. Pfeiffer expected and noticed that several of the class proudly sported the new toys either hanging on their belts or crowning their stacks of books.
"Those of you who have the new calculators, congratulations," she said. "In this class, you may feel free to use them any time and in any way you like -- for your class work, to help a classmate, for your homework, and so on. But when tests or quizzes are passed out, every calculator in this room will be on my desk for the duration."
Those who learn which buttons to mash on a keypad are forever doomed to mashing buttons on a keypad. Those who can add and subtract and multiply and divide and derive their own square roots can always learn to mash buttons later. Mrs. Pfeiffer understood that calculators can never replace mathematics, just as electronic databases can never replace the organizational genius of the DDS.