State-of-the-Art Technology (from the 70's!)
Posted on June 4, 2014
by Tom Horvath, Ph.D., ABPP
We recently remodeled our outpatient offices, requiring us to move everything out to re-carpet. It is challenging to clean up what has accumulated over 10 years! One item I have been saving (available from someone else on ebay, starting bid $3) is a 1970s Borm response golf counter.
This very sturdy, entirely metal device straps to your wrist. It will easily count golf strokes, or anything that is expected to occur 999 times or less, by pushing the side pin in about 1/4 inch. Rewinding is a very deliberate activity, so there is no chance of re-setting by accident (as one might easily do with an electronic device).
If a change is important enough to us, we often measure it or count it, and then record it. We have records of golf games, bathroom scales...
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