TheBanyanTree: The years go by ...

[Sally Larwood]

Twenty six years!?
I can't get over all the changes we've seen in the last forty years!  Think of the huge bricks the first mobile phones were!
The thrill of the phone that took photos!
When I started working I the bank building where all the computer stuff (I cannot think of the proper name) is situated three floors under the ground. It was a huge room because when they built the building in the seventies, they were told that was the space that would be needed as the use of computers increased. 
By the time I went there to work, everything was in a unit the size of a small storage cabinet. I can only guess what tiny unit sits in the middle of the huge space now! 
As a matter of interest, that floor was completely sealed with everything needed to withstand an atomic bomb. 

Sal
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> On 17 Aug 2016, at 06:21, paul <paul at remsset.com> wrote:
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> Way back in the Stone Age, almost, the electric pencil sharpener in the copier room at the Texas Dept. of Banking broke. I told Gary because that sort of stuff was his department. The motor ran but not the sharpening guts.
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> Gary bought a new machine and tossed the old one in Margie's trash can. This was after Gary's space had moved down to the Print Shop area. I asked Margie if I could have it. Uh, "ask Preston". So I did. I had to show the poopie one it was not working.
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> The official story is that I took it home and fixed it. In reality I fixed it during my lunch hour. Gave the motor a couple of drops of oil on each bearing and put the big plastic/nylon gear back onto the motor shaft. Added a smear of fingernail polish on the shaft because I didn't have super glue. Walla, fifteen minutes and fixed! Hmm, I forget why I had fingernail polish in my desk.
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> This was about 1990. What? 26 years?
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> Tried to sharpen a pencil the other day. The machine made a bad noise. Opened it and somehow it had striped teeth off of the big gear.
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> Not much there I can fix.
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> Junk, that's all you can buy anymore. Oh, and get off of my lawn. Damn whippersnappers.
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> paul
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