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@P-Mouse Күн бұрын
the "not using typewriters" thing is from the book
@felixecho 2 күн бұрын
Thanks for the end, Prof.
@StephenRansom47 3 күн бұрын
🤔 I think I need a Math Props set of CURTA whiskey 🥃 glasses … or perhaps Vodka Glasses … there could be a crack on top to grind some pepper in. You know, to absorb the sludge. 😉 old Bond Novel reference.
@alanesq1 3 күн бұрын
I feel guilty now as my tip resulted in you having to sit through all those adaptations of the same thing ;-)
@ChrisStaecker 3 күн бұрын
It was rough going at times
@diogoduarte4097 3 күн бұрын
I don't know what the Russians are doing in media half the time.
@sebvgmailcom 3 күн бұрын
These videos are starting to get a little deep fried and I'm all for it.
@getjaketospace 3 күн бұрын
I wish there were 1984 more of these
@ClausB252 3 күн бұрын
Recently saw a drawing of Orwell, his jaw dropped, reading a book called 2024. 😂
@werrrnerrr 4 күн бұрын
2:48 I find the assessment of the correct use of the props a bit too harsh. After entering the numbers, the operator seems to look at his papers. I think it is plausible that he wants to check his input before doing the calculation. We can't actually see what happens because the camera moves on and he disappears from the frame. The scene is too short to judge one or the other with certainty. Therefore, I would give it the benefit of the doubt and rate it as good. The fact that the other machines are not visibly used or even touched cannot be judged as incorrect use.
@no7mac 4 күн бұрын
did not talk about the slide show 0/10
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
what's the slide show?
@PendragonDaGreat 4 күн бұрын
The multiple layers of irony over using an Apple keyboard in a film adaptation of 1984 is kinda amazing tbh.
@ChrisStaecker 3 күн бұрын
@@PendragonDaGreat I considered including the commercial in this video, but I didn’t really have anything to say about it.
@Salsmachev 4 күн бұрын
1984 is a 1498 woodcut by Albrecht Altdorfer, based on the 1949 novel 1984. Its inclusion of a TI-84 implies that Altdorfer may have been a timetraveller.
@just_a_quick_ride 4 күн бұрын
Just "good", not "double plus good" huh?
@just_a_quick_ride 4 күн бұрын
I WATCHED 1984 YESTERDAY AND SAW THIS AND WAS GOING TO NOMINATE IT. I think we've learned that if you prevaricate then someone else will do it for you and you needn't bother.
@Ravlen1 4 күн бұрын
Brilliant!
@AndyLundell 4 күн бұрын
The standards that these ratings are based on are not documented, but after carefully examining all the Good/Bad ratings to date, I think the two worst Math Prop sins are "Not having a Math Prop" and "Holding an Abacus Upside down".
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
The two cardinal sins
@hughobyrne2588 3 күн бұрын
@@ChrisStaecker Have you considered rating which is worse, making them... ordinal sins?
@jacquesbowman1959 4 күн бұрын
There's a scene at the begining of Raiders of th lost Ark when Indy is being convinced to go and look for it. There is a formula written on the blackboard (in a history class no less) is this just gibberish or the meaning of life the universe and everything?
@ChrisStaecker 3 күн бұрын
@@jacquesbowman1959 I found this: thebigblogtheory.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/s0704-the-raiders-minimization/ I’d say at a glance it looks like basic physics- whoever wrote it had to know a little something, or was copying from a legit source, then somehow messed it up either by mistake or to make it look cooler.
@redoktopus3047 4 күн бұрын
the fact that orwell wrote a book about how awful it would be to live in a police state where your friends rat on you only to himself be a police informant on homosexuals and other political activists is more artful than the entire book.
@Pallethands 4 күн бұрын
I'm starting to think 1984 might really be groundhogs day
@jaapsch2 4 күн бұрын
Although that unknown device does look a bit like a Summira/Resulta/Regina type of machine, I don’t see a register above or below the input area. I don’t even see one in the middle like the TriumphatorKA/LipsiaAddi. I suspect it could be some kind of checkwriter machine instead, maybe a Paymaster, with its lever removed.
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
This is my go-to guess if it doesn’t look familiar. “Maybe a check writer?”
@colinstu 4 күн бұрын
should check out the movie Brazil (1985), similar aesthetic (actually crazier).
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
Yes it’s on my list!
@Joe_VanCleave 4 күн бұрын
That unknown device at 1:13 reminds me of some plastic Japanese-made adding machines that were marketed under various names.
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
Yes- the Chadwick adding machine
@pierQRzt180 4 күн бұрын
I love 01:06
@olivefernando7879 4 күн бұрын
Instead of typewriters they have speakwrites, speech to text conversion machines that would've been a future technology but isn't anymore
@Nashvillain10SE 4 күн бұрын
I got FIVE Math Prop videos for the price of ONE!!!
@Blumf7 2 күн бұрын
That denominator adds up!
@joehopfield 4 күн бұрын
We used one on the loading dock at UCLA in 1980 - best job ever. Instead I sold out for a few bones to become a software engineer.
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
Nice- I went to UCLA- finished 2009
@tracefleemangarcia8812 5 күн бұрын
Hey Chris! I'm currently preparing a manuscript for publication on Ramón Llull and Leibniz, especially their indebtedness to Arab astronomical (really astrological) calculating devices. Do you plan to do a video on Llull's ars magna or Leibniz's ars combinatoria? Both have been called the grandfather of modern computers.
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
Thanks so much! I usually don't do straight books, but maybe... I'm not familiar with Llull at all- I'll check it out.
@tracefleemangarcia8812 4 күн бұрын
@@ChrisStaecker Llull and Leibniz definitely published their work as books, but in the case of Llull at least it usually was full of little paper wheels that spun around to produce combinations of terms. It spawned a whole centuries-long fad for books with moving discs in them. It IS incredibly opaque though...as one should expect from a system allegedly that can prove all the facts of reality and was given to Llull by none other than a mystical vision of Jesus. I don't fully understand it myself as I've only been studying it for a year. Another possible ancient precedent is the I Ching (Yijing) that inspired Leibniz to publish his work on binary arithmetic. Definitely easier to learn to use than Llull's art.
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
@tracefleemangarcia8812 spinning wheels you say? Now I’m really interested…
@tracefleemangarcia8812 4 күн бұрын
@@ChrisStaecker Yes, spinning wheels -- sometimes in very complex configurations! This is the reason Llull is sometimes understood as an early computer scientist: he was making machines (very simple paper machines) to "think" and it was this that inspired Leibniz to, you know, start building calculators. Arguably the idea of combining terms algorithmically is how Leibniz developed binary. Lots of wackiness going on if you're mainly interested in the math though! There's a reason Llull became seen as a magician / sorcerer in later centuries.
@ChrisStaecker 4 күн бұрын
@tracefleemangarcia8812 is there a modern edition in English you can recommend?
@jaapsch2 6 күн бұрын
I've done a bit of research into Edwin G. Bates, and I think you've done him wrong. He left the Bates Manufacturing Company in about 1895, and set up the Bates Machine Company in 1899. He died in 1907, and it was only in 1909 that the latter company tried to insert Numbering into its name, finally going too far in its deceptive practices and receiving an injunction. The next year the company was bought by William C. Roberts, a former jeweller, and renamed the Roberts Numbering Machine Company. Anyway, it seems Bates knew what he was doing and how far he could go, and it was only after he was dead that it went wrong. BTW, I have found a real picture of Bates.
@ChrisStaecker 6 күн бұрын
Very interesting... I hope Bates's great-grandkids will forgive me! This makes more sense why the new company was called Roberts. Thanks for the info!
@jaapsch2 2 күн бұрын
@@ChrisStaecker He's certainly no angel though. I just found out that a year after after he left he sent to all the customers (or at least as many as he and his secretary could remember) a postcard to "remind" them to have their Bates machines regularly serviced at his Bates Machine Company, also offering to supply new machines. Quite sneaky! Still, at this point he was reselling original machines so he was more or less just acting as a dealership, not a real competitor. When his new company started to manufacture their own machines is when things got real dicey.
@markvanhorne3276 6 күн бұрын
I’d like to make one of these, but the link doesn’t work.
@ChrisStaecker 6 күн бұрын
Sorry- fixed it: faculty.fairfield.edu/cstaecker/machines/equameter.html
@maxmn5821 7 күн бұрын
There is a neat wooden modern implementation: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXTEoIF3nZl9fdU It pleasing to see how an old invention keeps charming our minds
@algorithminc.8850 7 күн бұрын
Thanks. I look forward to scoping your channel. Subscribed. Great stuff. Cheers
@timetraveller6643 7 күн бұрын
Topic Suggestion: The weird MONIAC Phillips Machine that modeled the economy with plumbing.
@davegraham7550 9 күн бұрын
the speed of writing
@BokBarber 9 күн бұрын
Woah, you were close by! Despite being local and trying to look into it, I was never sure which Smith-Corona models were made in Syracuse, which were made in Groton, and which were made in Cortland. All three towns had Smith-Corona factories. I know that the Cortland plant replaced the Syracuse plant in 1960, but the Groton plant overlapped with both. It's a weird thing to care about, but I'd like to know where my Skyriter was born... Nowadays the old Cortland plant houses an office supply store (ironic since it has no typewriters) the Cortland Chamber of Commerce (ironic since Smith-Corona was half the commerce in the town) and a... pinball meditation lounge (?????)
@ChrisStaecker 9 күн бұрын
pinball meditation lounge sounds great! I shouldve checked it out
@JavierChiappa 9 күн бұрын
Oh man this video made me go and buy a CR-3. I'm actually learning that part of the PPL license, i should learn how to use them, just in case computers/Ipads decide to go down mid-flight. Also, looks super cool when you are pre-flight planning with that in the airfield. Thanks!
@naninano8813 10 күн бұрын
Chyrosan22 really enjoys their keyboards
@davegraham7550 10 күн бұрын
great work...thanks
@getjaketospace 10 күн бұрын
Smith Corona!
@BROTRRer 10 күн бұрын
So sad this company went bankrupt after the coronavirus
@ChrisStaecker 10 күн бұрын
Smith Corona is still in business. You mean the Corona Club went under after covid? It is a shame. I hope they saved the sign at least.
@Nashvillain10SE 11 күн бұрын
"Somebody" chiseled off the sign "before" you got there. 🤔 😂
@Joe_VanCleave 11 күн бұрын
I’m still using my Corona 3!