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A few of us were at Orange Grove this Friday, Vet's day (11/11/11), parked in the center island of parking spots. I'm almost positive that I had my green paper folder that held my two log books, tables, and cave system maps on my way home but the folder is nowhere to be found. These are all of my 150 dives since o/w training with detailed comments for each dive so I'm really bummed that they disappeared. Just in case, holler if anyone found 'em.
This really touched my heart... I love my dive log and I think I would cry if I lost it. My puppy got ahold of my most recent one and left a few teeth marks and it is the first time I ever really yelled at him. I hope you find it : \
I keep telling myself to copy mine, but I never seem to get around to it. I don't take it out of my house anymore, because part of it is over 40 years old. I didn't keep a log the first 10 years I was diving :-(
Maybe this will make me copy mine!
My logbooks NEVER leave the house. If a dive boat needs to see one, I'll photocopy the last twenty dives.
Have you tried calling the park ranger? Try 386-776-2184. Good luck!
Everytime I hear about something like this I'm glad I keep a full electronic log that I can email back ups to myself
Good luck!
If you have a digital camera, with macro focus (everything except the cheap Wal-mart cameras) it would only take a few minutes to photograph each page of the logbook, and store the images on your computer. You should be able to snap images almost as fast as you can turn the pages.
Newbie :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by CaveMD
I would have done the same thing, if they had computers when I started diving, (nevermind email) :roll:
True, but you still have to actually DO it :(Quote:
Originally Posted by gschaut
I'm assuming you didn't log dives for the first 10 years because they didn't have paper yet? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by FW
:rollguyQuote:
Originally Posted by CaveMD
You could have had a punch card dive log!Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
I was diving before punch cards... I did register at college with punch cards, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenwood_60
Heck, Forrest, they used punch cards at registration when I was in college.
Yup, me too. And there was a "computation center" where you could take complex mathematical problems to be computed. You would set up the problem with pencil and paper, and a work-study student would transfer it onto punch cards with a thing that looked like a manual typewriter. They'd run the punch cards through the computer and give you the answer, sometimes even the same day!Quote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
Mike
OK, then you must be really old :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Slüdge
You mean my skills as a keypuch operator are not in demand? I get a kick out of guys at work talking about they've been in IT longer than Windows. I started on Vax systems with Keycard readers. It took all day to get a keypunch machine to make 2 changes to some code, waiting half a day for the deck to make it to the reader, and several more hours to wait on the code output so you could do it all again. Testing one change could take you a couple days just to see if it would run. And heaven forbid you should drop your deck and have to reorder the cards. Anyone else use pencil numbering on the cards in case this happens?
I still have a slide rule that works really well.
thats pretty old...
I have a slide rule, too, but I forgot how to use it. Though somewhere in a box of books in the attic I have a little book that explains it.
I just had to make a change on a program I wrote in the early '80s. The compiler only runs under DOS, but I managed to make the update. And yes, the '80s isn't that old. When I started college in 1962, there was a computer science class in the course catalog, but they didn't get the school computer installed until the following semester. We learned how to "program" sorters, gang punches, etc. The "programming" was moving wires on a big board in the side of the machines :rollQuote:
Originally Posted by Skorpiov
When the computer finally arrived (IBM), it took up a huge room, with it's own AC unit. It sat up on a false floor, to run cables to peripherals. It came with 4 rack cabinets. Each cabinet had 4K of magnetic core storage. That made a total of 32K of ram. Not 32Gig, or even 32Meg, but 32K, for an entire university! Backup was on magnetic tape, and the hard drive had removable media, with five disks the size of LP records, with a total of 1Meg of storage. I think my wristwatch has more that 32K of memory :-D
To boot it, you had to put a stack of punch cards in the card reader.
Don't forget to watch for a lost logbook :-)
I leave my logbooks at home as well. Ill fill em out with dive puter info and other stuff that went on when I get back from a trip. I use small spiral notebooks and write down quite a bit about the dive and the day. Id hate to lose em since when Im too old to dive and laid up I can relive all the old times .
Bumping a really old thread with a question. Recently, my home flooded. I lost 90% of everything I owned, including my dive log book. As a diver who's transitioning from AOW to Cave, what would you do if you lost all of your proof of dive records?
Sorry for your loss. When you are cavern student you are the instructor's tabula rasa, and they will teach you a new skill set and gear configuration. Speak with the instructor you chose, I am betting this will be less of a problem than you think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scubaru
Instructor wise, I know that to be the case, ONLY because he got to see it before it was lost. I took nitrox and sidemount with him already. I'm more upset that I don't have the documented memories (still have the actual memories at this point in life) of the last 14 years. I'm tempted to at least log what I remember of them but will have to place a large asterisk by them as "actual depth, tank readings, visibility, date, dive table class, etc unknown". It wasn't many dives by you guys standards, but again, sucks to lose what I had.
All my dives are in 3 part logs. I have a log book, download from my computer to desktop and laptop, and a back up on My Passport Hard Drive. I have crashes but never lost my dives. Fortunately I have not had a flood.
Sorry for your loss but I am sure it has taught you to back up your records.