by Admin | May 24, 2017 | The Good Old Days, Uncategorized
A few years ago I worked with an English guy who had migrated to New Zealand many, many years ago. Let’s call him Kiwi Dave. One day over morning tea, we got talking about “the good old days” and he told me a bit about his early days. In his words … It was 1957...
by Admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Humour, The Good Old Days
1. When you can vividly remember your love affair with “Beam Analysis by Moment Integration”. 2. When you can remember the room of clerks with flying fingers tapping away on the “adding machines with handles”. 3. When you can remember your...
by admin | Mar 23, 2017 | The Good Old Days, Uncategorized
⁃ When you can remember tuning the carburetor on your car ⁃ You still have your first (and only) set of drawing instruments and they are in pristine condition ⁃ You still use these drawing instruments ⁃ You can remember when there was more waste product on the factory...
by admin | Mar 15, 2017 | The Good Old Days, Uncategorized
1. When you can remember using a hole template for drafting work 2. When you can remember using a sanding board to produce chisel points which were “works of art” As was the Calligraphy you produced on each drawing !!! 3. When you can remember asbestos...
by admin | Mar 8, 2017 | The Good Old Days, Uncategorized
You Know That You’re An Old Engineer - Number 4 • When you can remember marveling at the very first fax machine you ever saw and now the young guys tell you that the fax is dead – nobody uses that old technology these days • When you can remember seeing...
by admin | Mar 1, 2017 | The Good Old Days, Uncategorized
You Know That You’re An Old Engineer - Number 3 1. When you can remember the crane dog man putting his foot in the hook and getting hoisted up by the crane and it was a perfectly acceptable practice 2. When you can remember an Erasing Shield not being a...
by admin | Feb 15, 2017 | The Good Old Days, Uncategorized
You Know That You’re An Old Engineer - Number 2 When you can remember the first Engineering Office calculator being a valve set and needing a 10 minute warm up before it could be used When you can remember that the (above) calculator could - add, ...
by admin | Feb 7, 2017 | The Good Old Days, Uncategorized
You Know That You’re An Old Engineer - Number 1 1. When you can remember working from the original blue print drawings 2. When you can remember the smell of ammonia on the “new” system of printing drawings 3. When you can remember the dedicated...
