3 Mar
2013
3 Mar
'13
11:49 a.m.
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 11:17 AM PST 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" :-)
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At 20:07 -0600 3/2/13, <James> wrote:
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$.
This leads me to my belief that I was the last
slide rule teacher.? In 1975, in Ghana, ....
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