On 5/1/14 8:47 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 22:54:21 -0500, Mark H Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:
My high school '74 was the last class to learn the slide-rule using
the Sterling (we paid a deposit to use the school's).
Since calculators had started to appear, I never did get formal
training in slide-rules. The LL scales still require me to glance at a
guide book...
I regret that I never risked the $35 dollars when my college bookstore
was closing out the slide-rule display. They had the top Post bamboo
laminate rule at half price. At the time I'd bought an HP-25 calculator
[they phased out the HP brand a year or two later -- apparently RPN was too
confusing].
Half way through my senior year the HP-65 "gold key" calculator was
available for about $800.00 dollars. That sucker was programmable and
had magnetic strip recorder for off-loading storage... but I digress. We
all had our priorities... one guy bought one; the rest of us bought
cars. ---for about the same price too!
I used my rule well into college; the first calculator I owned was
the Rockwell 63R --- "The Big green numbers, and the little rubber feet!"
marcus
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