On 27/11/15 16:17, Colin Law wrote: > On 27 November 2015 at 16:02, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: >> On 26/11/15 14:46, Simon Greenwood wrote: >>> On 26 November 2015 at 14:31, Alan Lord <alansli...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 26/11/15 14:03, Alan Pope wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> I remember my brother getting music magazines with promo plastic >>>>> records on the front :) >>>>> >>>> >>>> lol - *I* remember getting those bendy 45s on the front of magazines... >>>> >>>> ​ >>> Me too - I still have a few in my singles case​. Getting a record >>> player >>> set up is scheduled for some time next year... >>> >>> ​s​/ >>> >> >> LOL LOL >> My first job needed a slide rule use a LOT... One day I needed to calc >> a large number of square roots. Went to a special large room >> (cupboard) with only a table chair and a 10-digit nixie tube display >> mans powered calculator. Later on that day I went back to the shop >> floor where we made valves. (Valves are glass things like old light >> bulbs, only they had lots of stuff inside and lots of plug in >> connecting pins). Said hello to the glass blowers, and skirted around >> the mercury vacuum pumps, to get to my desk... >> >> Ah! Those were the days! #computing >> >> NB a slide rule is a special little stick with markings along it. Good >> for lots of uses including I suppose building the pyramids. > > Have you still got yours Alan? I have mine. A classy Thornton's > plastic model. My brother had a wooden one, mine was much smoother in > operation, most superior. If you only need three digits precision it > can be almost as fast as a calculator and it forces you to think what > the numbers mean in a way you don't with a calculator. Much easier to > make a stupid mistake on a calculator and never notice as you don't > get an intuitive feel for the numbers in the same way. > > Colin >
Hey yes. A mini slick plastic jobby in a swish leather case, (mobile), for the top pocket, along with several pens :-) and the desktop model wood and plastic faces a foot long (That I never fully fathomed out all it functions LOL). This one is robust. On the last day of college I accidentally drove my banger (car) back over it, squashing the outer case. Probably improved it... :-) Ahhh those were thay days.... -- alan cocks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
