Apple Floppy Drives (was: More Apple Pimpers)

From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com>
Date: Thu Nov 8 15:05:33 2001

Especially if the batteries in the calculator are dead ;)

(BTW, my 14-year old son has three slide rules and was quite interested in
the giant one up on the wall in a hall at his high school.)

-----Original Message-----
From: One Without Reason [mailto:vance_at_ikickass.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 2:41 PM
To: Classic Computers Mailing List
Subject: Re: Apple Floppy Drives (was: More Apple Pimpers)


> > Good point! But doesn't that make it interesting now in 2001? I mean
the slide
> > rule
> > compared to the electronic caluclator makes the slide rule seem like a
lousy design.
> >
> > Aren't slide rules interesting today.

I can do a lot of things faster on a slide rule than an electronic
calculator.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Thu Nov 08 2001 - 15:05:33 GMT