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Yeah, I'm old enough to remember that era, too. My first encounter with a microwave was at far Bob's in Pasadena. Finals had just ended at Cal Tech and I walke
by ridgeguy 5y ago
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember that era, too.
My first encounter with a microwave was at far Bob's in Pasadena. Finals had just ended at Cal Tech and I walked to far Bob's to decompress. I had no knowledge of microwave ovens.
I ordered a piece of cherry pie. Waitress decided to warm it without telling me, using their then-new microwave oven.
The plate was ice cold when she passed it to me. When I bit into a piece of the pie, I burned the bejesus out of my mouth. I yelped and the waitress came running.
She showed me this magic box, which made sense as I'd just finished E&M. She comped me the pie and since it was a slow night (around 2am), we spent an hour testing different foods in the microwave. Bacon layered in paper towels was the clear winner.
- WalterBright 5y agoNice to see a fellow techer here! The fastest tech revolution I ever saw was in the fall of '75, when I was a frosh. At the beginning of the semester, the Caltech bookstore had slide rules for $125. By December, they were on closeout for $5. Never saw them again. The calculators had arrived!
- bobsmooth 5y agoWhat was that like, going from log tables to instant calculations?
- WalterBright 5y agoLike riding your bike to school instead of walking. (Showing my age again. Kids today don't ride bikes to school. All you gotta do is look at the lonely single bike rack at elementary schools. In my day there were lots of racks festooned with bikes. These days when I pass a school, there's a long line of moms in SUVs with the motor running talking on their phones.)
- jacquesm 5y ago> Kids today don't ride bikes to school. In the USA. But in plenty of other places they do. In fact, at the bike rack of my sons school there is too little place, so some of them overflow onto the school yard.