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I’ll see your raise, and up it:
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I always see those videos where people give kids a walkman or a rotary phone and ask them to figure out what it is or how it works. I'm imagining some medieval merchant handing me an abacus and laughing because I can't figure it out.
Hint: each bar has five beads, with a 2 bead multiplier above
Young whippersnappers.
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You kids don't know how good you have it!
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At least you have hands! I had to get my fabricated from the town blacksmith.
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Ooh ooh ooh?
Fun fact, the Romans would never have labeled their abacuses like this. It would have made calculating very difficult; they effectively worked with modern numbers in bead form, and then used the famous numeral system just to record the results.
Don't buy copper from this guy, it's low-quality and your messenger will be treated with contempt.
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Represent!
This. this is my childhood. Digging through discount bins at blue light specials in Kmart for cartridges and copying BASIC line by line from a magazine and recording it on cassette tape so we could play Yahtzee on the TV.
We had one of those in school. One per classroom. We had one educational game on it. Since there was only one, they would sit us down at it in pairs and we'd get 5m to play on it. I think I got to use it maybe three times in a given year.
My buddy still has one of those in his garage.
My brother in Munchman, Alpine, and coding racist stuff out of the book.