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So do I. But I was talking about the slide rule, a calculating device for figuring out higher math functions that pretty much went the way of the dinosaur after the advent of the pocket calculator.
I last saw and used one of those back when I was a technician for a foundry's metallurgy lab... and I was one of the first there to 'graduate' to the calculator when they became common and affordable. ($50 at the time, compared to an associate's TI programmable scientific calculator with fewer functions than mine (a Radio Shack model), priced at nearly $500.)
I last saw and used one of those back when I was a technician for a foundry's metallurgy lab... and I was one of the first there to 'graduate' to the calculator when they became common and affordable. ($50 at the time, compared to an associate's TI programmable scientific calculator with fewer functions than mine (a Radio Shack model), priced at nearly $500.)
I use my Aristo Slide rule almost everyday at work ; ) i just like the feel of it!
And it was great when i was a student, when in the institute did exams with "calculators not allowed" , slide rules were completely allowed - some of my classmates wanted me to teach them how to use a slide rule just for that reason, and professors didn't consider that as cheating, but "impressive"
And it was great when i was a student, when in the institute did exams with "calculators not allowed" , slide rules were completely allowed - some of my classmates wanted me to teach them how to use a slide rule just for that reason, and professors didn't consider that as cheating, but "impressive"
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