slipping sticks

From: Mark Tapley <mtapley_at_swri.edu>
Date: Thu Feb 5 11:14:58 1998

>"Slipsticker"?!? I thought I was the last one! C'mon -- who else here has
>his old slide rule _and_ still remembers how to use it?
>
>manney

Yo! Right here in my desk drawer. Used this one through High School
(graduated 1980). The teachers cut me some slack on the 3rd digit from time
to time.

>No, I do not have _my_ high school/college slide rule, which was a
>magnificent 12" yellow aluminum Pickett with a hard leather case and a belt
>loop. ...
>__________________________________________
>Kip Crosby engine_at_chac.org

Oooh, a pretty one. That's just like my "home system".

>I also use a E6B ... That one is in the plane as I'm absolutely certain
>it works as the calculator version of the E6B allways seems to need a
>new battery.
>
>Allison

Right - and it's fast, and the readout is visible in any lighting condition
in the cockpit (if you can't read an E6B, navigation is *not* your main
problem!) and you can drop it about as far as you want and it'll be OK. I
have never used an electronic E6B, for all those reasons.

> I know of some people with
>700+ units. Me, I have 30, including a 7 foot long Pickett classroom rule.
>
>Cheers
>Andrew

Wow...I didn't think this thread would lead to massive array parallel
processing *or* supercomputing...but you never know! ;-)

                                                        - Mark
Received on Thu Feb 05 1998 - 11:14:58 GMT