tomboyy:
I have seen them. I've used them. More features today? Most do have that. Easier to read? Not a chance. Less complex? No way. If you never saw a dive computer from 1988, what makes you think you know anything about them?
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I have seen them. I've used them. More features today? Most do have that. Easier to read? Not a chance. Less complex? No way. If you never saw a dive computer from 1988, what makes you think you know anything about them?
Sorry walter I was making a statement based On computers in general. my first Real computer was a Apple II GS which was right around the time of the 386... before that i had.. a Apple 400 and some console I can't remember the name of right now. I started buying modems at 1200 baud. I took programming language back in 1986 ( fortran, Mbasic, RPG II, colbalt) I know the difference between computers 20 years ago and today. I guess I was wrong though. I prolly should have joined this board along time ago and then I would have known to get on E-bay and buy a 20 year old dive computer to save myself some money seeing as how they are just as good as the ones today
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I think I fall in the same catagory as your sister. Took an asskicker of a course in 1973, certifed in 1974. If I could find my log book I think I'd find about 30 to 40 dives in 74 and 75, then 3 dives in 1990, three in 2006 and now getting back into it.
Breezing through a book reminded me of most of the book stuff: tables, physiology, etc. I found the equipment a lot different: I started with a US Diver two hose regulator and my bcd was more like the plastic pfd you find under your seat on an airliner. There was no such thing as a dive computer. Yet, the equipment part was pretty easy to adapt to, what I'm dealing with are the changes in my physiology.
Intellectually I know I'm 33 years older, but for some reason I still feel like I should be able to drink to the wee hours, get up early, sling twin 100s over my shoulder and hoof it a quarter mile in the sand and not be huffing and puffing. So my biggest issue is adapting the memory of what I used to be able to do at 24 with what I'm really capable of at 57. It's a sobering process.
I'd make sure she gets in the water for a few dives so she get's comfortable with what she can do at T+20.
Breezing through a book reminded me of most of the book stuff: tables, physiology, etc. I found the equipment a lot different: I started with a US Diver two hose regulator and my bcd was more like the plastic pfd you find under your seat on an airliner. There was no such thing as a dive computer. Yet, the equipment part was pretty easy to adapt to, what I'm dealing with are the changes in my physiology.
Intellectually I know I'm 33 years older, but for some reason I still feel like I should be able to drink to the wee hours, get up early, sling twin 100s over my shoulder and hoof it a quarter mile in the sand and not be huffing and puffing. So my biggest issue is adapting the memory of what I used to be able to do at 24 with what I'm really capable of at 57. It's a sobering process.
I'd make sure she gets in the water for a few dives so she get's comfortable with what she can do at T+20.
tomboyy:
As long as you aren't diving nitrox, that would be an excellent idea. I learned fortran in '74, don't you miss key punch?
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