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navycop

navycop

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It just struck me today as I was reading through some of the new post. I saw some on there from the "introductions" forum. We got members from all over the USA, Canada and across the oceans. It got me to thinking, when you guys started and computers were in thier infancy; did you ever wondered if anybody else was making pens? I have only been turning for a short while and I am greatful for all the knowledge that I have aquired over the years..
 
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I've been a furniture maker all my life. I had a client ask me to make her a peice for her kitchen. She wanted it made from some type of rare wood. Rare woods are very rare in my area, so I did a google search and found Ancient Kauri wood. At the bottom of the page they had a link for pen blanks. I said to myself, what's a pen blank? That was about 8 years ago and hundreds of pens later, my life was changed for the good.
 
I've been playing around with personal computers since 1988, long before email or the Internet became popular, and a couple decades before life led me to a Rockler store that had a pen turning demo going on by our own WoodButcher.

I've seen MANY MANY changes in computers and the way we communicate over twenty plus years time span. And by the increase in pen kit offerings of the past few years I've been turning, there's plenty of advances and variety happening in the pen turning world as well.
 
Dave; My first computer was an Altair 8800(?) My first IBM PC at work had no hard drive, and only 2 160K floppy drives. Over my working career I've worked on computers from the smallest embedded processors to the largest mainframe IBM makes.
 
Ahh Altair - I totally forgot about that old beast. I can remember when modems first hit the market and my friend and I spent a couple hours just trying to get our computers to talk to each other. We were ecstatic when we finally got everything going and could simple send text messages over the line. It's quite amazing how far things have come since those days. Then we moved on to the old BB boards. Ahh those were the days.


randyrls said:
Dave; My first computer was an Altair 8800(?) My first IBM PC at work had no hard drive, and only 2 160K floppy drives. Over my working career I've worked on computers from the smallest embedded processors to the largest mainframe IBM makes.
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randyrls said:
Dave; My first computer was an Altair 8800(?) My first IBM PC at work had no hard drive, and only 2 160K floppy drives. Over my working career I've worked on computers from the smallest embedded processors to the largest mainframe IBM makes.
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I remember when I was on my first ship (USS Saipan LHA-2). The computers they had were DOS prompt. The Security Officer would type the Operating procedures on a floppy disk and I would have to go in and make chances. He wanted me to save all the chances as: chance 1, chance 2... so he could "cut and paste" to make the final draft. We did our Courtmartial paperwork and Incident reports on a manuel typewriter...
 
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