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I guess I am not in that "most of us" category when it comes to computers. I don't own one and don't have any plans on ever getting one.:D
 
What the ******?! Now I do feel old!

I have been using a computer since 1985. In my opinion the computer is the one and only significant piece of dive gear invented since the Aqua Lung. I have a notation in my log book on the first dive I did with the Edge and it says" this is what we have been waiting for". Prior to the Edge I had gone through several early attempts at a decompression computer, several Scubapro SOS Bendomatics, the Faralon Decomputer, etc with not much luck or confidence and then along came the Edge.
I did a lot of hunting on the oil rigs and it is multi level diving to the max which ideally fits using a computer. Square profiles on tables are no problem but on the up and down of rig spearfishing the computer can't be beat.
 
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I was just giving you a hard time, Captain. I know that a computer would be ideal for a multi-dive day, especially when trying to maximize on dive time as when on a boat diving trip and such. I just haven't been able to bring myself to get one, and most of my dives are relatively shallow and by the time I get all the table dives in that I can for the day, I'm pooped! I honestly was unaware that most of the vintage divers were on computers. Now I know.
 
In the 70ies, I too had one of those Farralon contraptions with “stop light simplicity” It was recalled shortly after I bought it. In the 80ies I worked for two people who fell victim to the Bend-O-Matic. In the 90ies I borrowed a Suunto that decided it didn’t like the profile I used and locked up for 48 hours. That put me off computers until a friend loaned me a nice and easy puck computer last year, now I own one just like it….. There's nought so queer as folk..’cept maybe computers.

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All my rig diving/spearfishing buddies had those Bend-O-matics, they are mostly dead now, RIP.

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I was just giving you a hard time, Captain. I know that a computer would be ideal for a multi-dive day, especially when trying to maximize on dive time as when on a boat diving trip and such. I just haven't been able to bring myself to get one, and most of my dives are relatively shallow and by the time I get all the table dives in that I can for the day, I'm pooped! I honestly was unaware that most of the vintage divers were on computers. Now I know.

But I am computer vintage as I still use the Edge I bought in 1985 and it tracks nicely with a newer 2005 Oceanic.
 
All my rig diving/spearfishing buddies had those Bend-O-matics, they are mostly dead now, RIP.

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Sounds like an advertisement:rofl3:
 
in 2004 on a planned trip to the flower gardens, I discovered my Aqual lung depth gauge had leaked all the oil out, and being 30 years since it was new, I could not find anyone to repair it........so I bought a Aries dive computer,,,,,makes a nice depth guage, accurate too............I still use the tables for planning as my eyes are so bad, reading the little green bars, on the aries, is pointless...........but it makes for a nice depth guage as I said...........

BC's are nice on the surface when there is some distance to swim back to point of origin........or when carrying a heavy camera etc.........but diving with out one, as stated many times here......there ain't no comparison.........
 

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