Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong

[Chuck Norcutt]

I could do trig functions and logs as well.  But I agree, I didn't trust 
the results unless I had at least a ball park guess in my head of what 
the answer should be.  Somewhere I still have the expensive K+E pocket 
model my father-in-law gave me in the late 60s.  The larger, cheap 
plastic one I had used for years is long gone.

Chuck Norcutt


On 8/26/2012 11:04 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> I loved the scene in "Apollo 13" when Lovell communicated to Houston
> that he wanted to try a different scenario for re-entry and all the
> smart guys on the ground whipped out their slide rules to check out if
> it would compute.  Lovell must have figured most of it out in his head.
>
> I may have owned a slide rule once.  I could do multiplication and
> division with it, but I only trusted it if I already knew the answer.
> Advanced users told me that feeling never really went away.
>
> Joel W.
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012, at 07:43 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> It's a whole lot easier to get by with little when there are no graphics
>> displays.  :-)
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 8/26/2012 3:28 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>>> It's amazing to think how much you could do with so little; there might be 
>>> a lesson there . . .
>>>
>>> Chris
>
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