3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
11:41 a.m.
I graduated from high school in 1987. Nobody had ever heard of a
slide rule by that time. They seem to have faded very quickly.
-Dave
On 03/03/2013 02:17 PM, Mark Tapley wrote:
James (and Chris),
I graduated in 1980, McCallum High School, Austin, Texas. We had a
slide rule team, with a coach. In addition, my Biology and physics
teachers all let me use slide rule for all homework and tests, giving me
credit if my answer was within about 0.5% or so. Dunno whether that
counts, but if so would push the date out to 1980.
I did get a TI-59 (still have it, sticky keyboard and I'll bet the
card reader doesn't work) middle of my senior year. That was a pleasant
culture shock...
I don't know that I ever saw one of the six-foot-long
"supercomputers" :-) .
At 20:07 -0600 3/2/13, <James> wrote:
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
This leads me to my belief that I was the last
slide rule teacher.? In
1975, in Ghana, ....