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What phrases commonly used today are derived from obsolete technologies?
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| 05/04/2016
| HarpyGoddess
Posted on 05/05/2016 5:03:45 AM PDT by harpygoddess
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To: texas_mrs
When his dad told him how to say it, he looked at us with a puzzled look and said Whats a clothespin? I love my solar-powered clothes dryer. It is one of the few things that I do that is fully approved of by the usual gang of idiots!
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posted on
05/05/2016 7:42:19 AM PDT
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SES1066
(Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
To: circlecity
My dad worked for the literal “phone company”, back when it was one company.
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posted on
05/05/2016 7:43:25 AM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
To: harpygoddess
You need to toe the line.
(Not nautical, although often misspelled.)
To: rlmorel
Yes, i know her. Grace Hopper.
We both enlisted in the Navy the same year. She was 45 years old and i was 18.
She was top Navy Officer in charge of computer systems for all nine US Naval Shipyards.
I believe she developed the COBOL Language for Main Frames.
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posted on
05/05/2016 7:50:24 AM PDT
by
topspinr
To: Political Junkie Too
Telegraphing your move. SOS!
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posted on
05/05/2016 7:50:48 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
To: Carthego delenda est
Question, based on your unique experience: Does cordite have a unique smell, different than modern gunpowder?
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posted on
05/05/2016 7:51:13 AM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
To: harpygoddess
The “save” button on computer software always looks like a 3-1/2 inch floppy.
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posted on
05/05/2016 7:56:02 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
To: rlmorel
Yep, Grace Hopper was what you'd call
sui generis. What a great woman she was, and a great speaker for any occasion, graduations especially.
60 Minutes ran a segment on Rear Admiral Hopper before her last retirement from the Navy. The highlight (from my point of view) was her using a "visual aid" to describe a nanosecond: she held up a length of wire a little less than a foot long. Most viewers probably had no idea, and most still don't, that light and radio waves take a little time to travel any distance.
To: SES1066
“Take it for a spin” to an automobile salesman would be a “spin around the block” where the auto company was.
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:13:56 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Ah, but did you ever use the term Hit the carriage return in a computer training course Only when followed by "Line Feed."
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:17:42 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Fighting POLITICIANS is the true WOT)
To: rlmorel
“I found that on a computer keyboard, there are combinations of letters and words that I scream through, and it cant be done on a regular typewriter that way...you have to be more consistent.”
The arrangement of the keys (QWERTY) was an attempt to put the most-often-typed-together letters far enough apart so as to slow down the typist and avoid jams.
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:18:25 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: hanamizu
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:19:50 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: topspinr
“Flush the Buffers”
I still refer to forgetting things as having done a “core dump.”
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:21:22 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: topspinr
Knew you would! She is anecdotally thought to be the originator of the term “bug”, which I am sure you know as well!
Thanks for your service, Shipmate!
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:21:36 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: Ditter
Living in NYC, the only horse drawn wagon I remember was the junk man. There were cow bells strung across the back of the wagon to announce his presence and the horse’s name was “Macy.”
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:21:58 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(Fighting POLITICIANS is the true WOT)
To: harpygoddess
The Save icon on most computer applications is a floppy disk.
To: rlmorel
Is she the person who came up with the term “bug,” and it meant a real insect in the computer?
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:23:08 AM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: Roccus
We had those in Cleveland too.
The guy came down the street calling out “paper, rags”
To: logician2u
Heh, there are more than a few Freepers who have said they actually got a “nanowire” from her...:)
She gave a great speech, I felt privileged. Most of the other people at the commencement had no idea who she was, but...I did!
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:24:01 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
To: PLMerite
I still refer to forgetting things as having done a core dump. I blame that on "stack overflow".
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posted on
05/05/2016 8:27:53 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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