3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
2:34 p.m.
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From: "Chris Tofu" <rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com>
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Sent: 03/03/2013 19:49:08
Subject: Re: Slide Rules (was: Calculators)
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:17 AM PST Mark Tapley wrote:
Possibly, although slide rules were still in use when
I started my Maths
Degree in 1972. I remember that we were expected to do some Physics as
well as Maths and the Physics guy always used to moan because we went
off to the Maths Department to use the calculators. We had a room of
HP45Cs (I think, they were 45's) which were really lovely. There was
also a room full of Nixitube Boroughs which were less good. However both
were much quicker than use on slide rules....
... A couple of years later I sat the UK Radio Amateurs Examination and
I sat the first one where you were allowed to use a calculator, so they
were obviously getting affordable.
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:
This leads me to my belief that I was the last
slide rule teacher.?
In 1975, in Ghana, ....
-- - Mark 210-379-4635 I think I was required to get a scientific calc in
12th grade
(pre-calc, uh, why does that designation not seem right?). Or maybe it
was just strongly suggested. Obviously it made sense at that point.
Mine was a horizontal Sharp thingamabob. It wasn't the real high end
model/s, designated PC-n by Radio Shacj IIRC. I broke the lcd years
later, though I could hack in a replacement, but I can't find it. Only
the brown plastic slide in case. Cost about 40$.
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