09-12-2015, 09:41 PM
In a former life, during my career at British Gas, we were still using slide rules into the mid 70s. Calculators were classed as 'capital' rather then revenue items and needed a capital application and business case to be made, in the same way as buying a vehicle, say. However, other items from stationers were 'revenue' and needed no approval, so when we needed calculators, we just asked for a receipt for a 'stapler' or a dozen box files. Anyone who's worked in a large outfit, be it in the public or private sector will be familiar with all the ruses used to 'oil the wheels of industry'.
Never in our wildest dream could we have imagined that a pocket calculator can now be had for 60p at Tesco.
As to 'most people wearing a hat in the street', yes, and they raised it ('doffed' it) when a lady walked by! On the front page of Practical Wireless in the mid 1950s, not only did men at workbenches were a suit and a tie, as often as not, it was a bow tie, and of course, the obligatory briar pipe in one hand and a soldering iron in the other.
How times change.
Never in our wildest dream could we have imagined that a pocket calculator can now be had for 60p at Tesco.
As to 'most people wearing a hat in the street', yes, and they raised it ('doffed' it) when a lady walked by! On the front page of Practical Wireless in the mid 1950s, not only did men at workbenches were a suit and a tie, as often as not, it was a bow tie, and of course, the obligatory briar pipe in one hand and a soldering iron in the other.
How times change.
Regards, David.
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BVWS Member.
G-QRP Club Member 1339.
'I'm in my own little world, but I'm happy, and they know me here'
