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Originally Posted by manaboutown
My father was born in 1898 and passed away in 1992. Horse and buggy to the moon and beyond.
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What a life! from the end of the Agrarian age through the industrial age to the beginning of the technology age. . . what a movie he saw!
My dad was from 1924 through 2015, seeing the same from his agrarian parents to the technology age, as a mechanical gear designer, from log tables and slide rules to trs80 to Auto Cad drawings, flying on airplanes at 700 mph. . .
I programmed his involute curve calculations on the TRS 80 in the early 80s and he loved it as a check against his slide rule calculations. . .
to the founders of industrial and technological revolutions.