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| The invention that altered history: The slide rule |
| 2022-06-29 |
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #11 Lord help me, a 12" Versalog. I was working at the SAGE store on the Gulf Freeway in Houston in the camera dept, where calculators were sold, during Apollo-Soyuz. The Nasa guys brought the Russian engineering team to the store on a shopping expedition. The Russians bought every calculator in the building. One of the handlers, an AF colonel, shook his head and said "We probably just tripled the Russian's number crunching ability." |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2022-06-29 13:28 |
| #10 T still have mine. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2022-06-29 12:51 |
| #9 Napier's bones |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-29 11:18 |
| #8 After 55 years, I still use mine just for giggles. By the way, without the discovery of logarithms the slide rule wouldn't exist. just my two cents. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2022-06-29 10:56 |
| #7 Had a Litton electronic calculator back when $110.00 was real money. Still miss my HP 55. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-29 09:43 |
| #6 I have a Sans & Streiff. Got a couple circular slide rules around the casa somewhere. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-29 09:42 |
| #5 I have a Versalog II and its manual. Didn't regret buying the TI-59 either. |
| Posted by: magpie 2022-06-29 09:29 |
| #4 Still have a couple of old Picketts. My Dad's Model 4 and my N3. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-06-29 08:09 |
| #3 ^ Groan, the mental image... I'll never get it out of my head. |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-06-29 07:06 |
| #2 The constipated mathematician: He worked it out with a slide rule... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-29 05:22 |
| #1 In high school, I got a slide ruler, came to university we all rapidly switched to an electronic calculator. |
| Posted by: Bernardz 2022-06-29 05:17 |