Large Scale Central

What a hoot!

General Discussion
#1

Hi all, Laughing is good medicine! My equal half got home the other day with a present from a client.

Her question: “What do you think?” “Perfect calculator for those who don’t see that well, like large numbers but have small salaries and … tell me does it have Braille, too?” For size evaluation look at the Dremel and the city slicker wood chopper! You gotta love it! OK, where the dickens is my calculator???

Oh BTW, before someone takes offence, I have been wearing corrective lenses since I was 3 or 4; don’t remember exactly, that was a long time ago! :wink: :wink: :smiley:

#2

I don’t take offense. I wear those spectacles too. Love those large numbered calculators…and telephones. Maybe that’s why I hate my cell phone so much. Can’t see the darn thing. I used to have a calculator about like that one. The number display tipped up a little though.

#3
Warren Mumpower said:
Love those large numbered calculators....and telephones. Maybe that's why I hate my cell phone so much. Can't see the darn thing.
I'm in much the same boat. We have a digital alarm clock with really big numbers in our bedroom, so we don't have to keep our specs close to hand to see the time.

Ironically, I first got glasses about 40 years ago because the Quebec licensing people insisted I needed them to drive (actually, I could have used them for some activities years earlier than that, but the NHS figured that if I could see the Queen Mary at 50 feet, I didn’t need them).
Now that I’m 60, my distant vision is much better – my current eye doc says I really no longer need glasses for driving (reading – and modelling – is another matter, of course). But I can’t be bothered to go through the red tape needed to get the vision restriction taken off my driver’s licence.
Bifocals it is (actually, multifocals).

#4

I need tri-focals. One for distance, one for reading at a comfortable distance; and one for the computer as neither the distance nor the reading lens works, my head does this amusing bob, back and forth, back and forth… It helps for reading music, too. :lol:

#5
Chris Vernell said:
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Now that I’m 60, my distant vision is much better – my current eye doc says I really no longer need glasses for driving (reading – and modelling – is another matter, of course). But I can’t be bothered to go through the red tape needed to get the vision restriction taken off my driver’s licence.
Bifocals it is (actually, multifocals).


Bifocals, get them updated whenever I can’t see the Z scale work properly. :wink: :smiley: My previous eye doctor adviced against multifocals, was of the opinion that they’re for the birds for technical work and anything that is detailed because of the transition range. I didn’t argue! :smiley:

#6

I actually have 2 pair of glasses. One pair has a distance lens with a reading bifocal. The other pair has a midrange for the computer and a reading bifocal. That way I’m not doing the bob thingy while trying to use the computer. Besides I hate looking through slits. The computer glasses are much better for modeling too. The midrange lens is large enough that I can move my eyes around without having to bob and swivel my head. For reading, my bifocal is an executive cut with a full width bifocal…not the little spot…

#7

do you have to jump from number to number on that thing?

#8
Victor Smith said:
do you have to jump from number to number on that thing?
You don't have to, but if you have big fat stubby fingers it may end up looking like that. :lol: ;) :lol: