Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong

[Charles Geilfuss]

  Just to extend this OT discussion a bit further, who remembers this
clever little device:

       http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm

  I remember drooling over the ads for this thing in Scientific
American back in the late 60's. I was tempted a few times but $125 was
a *lot* of money.

Charlie

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My grandfather the geophysicist was an avid user of a "slipstick," but I 
> never sussed it out. Did buy and sell them on eBay for a while 10 or 15 years 
> ago. Found a few that had some real value, much to my surprise.
>
> --Bob
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2012, at 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.
>
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