5 Mar
2013
5 Mar
'13
3:49 p.m.
On 03/05/2013 02:30 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
1984 here. Never used a slide rule in anger at school,
although I did
know how to use one. My father showed me the basics and I figured out
some other tricks.
I'm sure that a few geezers remember the 6 ft. long giant slide rules
hanging just above the blackboard used to teach the use of the thing.
I recall a "spiral" slide rule in a round cylindrical package also.
Done to extend the length of the scale but not the physical length of
the rule.
And then there were the circular slide rules. Never used one.
--Chuck
P.S. I'm sure that we're close to the "chalk, blackboard? What are you
talking about?" era...