The school I attended had a ROTC program and those students carried long,
straight slide rules in a leather case attached to their belt loop. Being in
the chemistry program, we were not allowed to use that type (departmental
squabbling?), but had to carry circular slide rules. Mine is somewhere around
here, but without the manual........................ :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:02:29 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong
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 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.
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