the
eminent slipsticker Andrew Davie wrote:
<Snip>
"Slipsticker"?!? I thought I was the last one! C'mon -- who else here has
his old slide rule _and_ still remembers how to use it?
I have my old K&E in the closet; I took a one-hour class in '67,
though I already knew how to use it. One thing I learned using a slide
rule that calculator users seem to not get is a sense of order of
magnitude of the answer.
_______________
Barry Peterson bmpete(a)swbell.net
Husband to Diane, Father to Doug,
Grandfather to Zoe and Tegan.
I still have my HEMMI. I used to have a K+E Log-Log, but I've since
lost it. I learned to use it in 1976 (it was a requirement for
'Introduction to Scientific Method'). I still know how to use it (I
think).
BTW, my instructor used a *HUGE* yellow wooden Pickett in the
classroom (like the one that one of you mentioned). I've never seen
one that size before or since.
Jeff