"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?
manney
Yo! Right here in my desk drawer. Used this one through High School
(graduated 1980). The teachers cut me some slack on the 3rd digit from time
to time.
No, I do not have _my_ high school/college slide rule,
which was a
magnificent 12" yellow aluminum Pickett with a hard leather case and a belt
loop. ...
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Kip Crosby engine(a)chac.org
Oooh, a pretty one. That's just like my "home system".
I also use a E6B ... That one is in the plane as
I'm absolutely certain
it works as the calculator version of the E6B allways seems to need a
new battery.
Allison
Right - and it's fast, and the readout is visible in any lighting condition
in the cockpit (if you can't read an E6B, navigation is *not* your main
problem!) and you can drop it about as far as you want and it'll be OK. I
have never used an electronic E6B, for all those reasons.
I know of some people with
700+ units. Me, I have 30, including a 7 foot long Pickett classroom rule.
Cheers
Andrew
Wow...I didn't think this thread would lead to massive array parallel
processing *or* supercomputing...but you never know! ;-)
- Mark