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Knew someone who contemplated investing in a company that would rehab them in the late 80s, fortunately he didnt!
What is this crazy contraption??
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Ya, listening in on others conversations could get you in trouble with mom though! :-))
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Amazingly, unless its finally given up the ghost in the last couple years, one of our shops in AK has an actually rotary phone still wired up and working on the DSN. It's hilarious to watch new Airmen try to make a phone call, let alone to another DSN extension. It's an explosion proof model in a fuel vapor area so they can't just use their cell phones. They'd give the older guys sh!t when we'd make calls on the first try because we knew what we were doing.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
I'd love to have seen that. Reminds me of trying to explain a typewriter to my granddaughter about ten years ago.
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MSgt Don VandeBogert
Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Funny you should mention that. Same base..
Eielson...we did a deep.cleaning of a second floor in our facility. It used.to have our Flight Management team and the Transportation Sq leadership but sat vacant for about 15 years. We found a word processor that still worked and the ink wasn't dried up. A couple guys thought I was nuts because I wasn't so happy to see one. Fired it up and worked up a few forms that had to be routed up. It was fun, but thank goodness for Word and spell check now days.
We also found binders that went back to the '80s with pictures of USAF computer classes with HUGE desktop set ups and a still functioning microfiche viewer. Really took me back and I'm not that old. :)
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Eielson...we did a deep.cleaning of a second floor in our facility. It used.to have our Flight Management team and the Transportation Sq leadership but sat vacant for about 15 years. We found a word processor that still worked and the ink wasn't dried up. A couple guys thought I was nuts because I wasn't so happy to see one. Fired it up and worked up a few forms that had to be routed up. It was fun, but thank goodness for Word and spell check now days.
We also found binders that went back to the '80s with pictures of USAF computer classes with HUGE desktop set ups and a still functioning microfiche viewer. Really took me back and I'm not that old. :)
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
MSgt Don VandeBogert One of my jobs was a FB-111 simulator instructor. The computer for that took up a whole building just to run something the size of the crew capsule. That's also where I got introduced to IBM punch cards to create programs for the simulator,
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