Doug Pensinger wrote: > Do you remember the math machines - kind of mechanical computers - that > they used to have. If I recall correctly, you would type in a number > pull a lever, type in an operation and another number and pull the lever > and it would calculate the answer. My Dad used to take me to work with > him on weekends and sit me down on those things (I was ~ 11) and we > played on them for hours. Obviously this was a few years before the > hand heald calculator was introduced.
I remember using one of those things in '70 or '71 to analyse some data for physics prac. Seemed like magic at the time! > How many here ever used a slide rule? I actually used one a couple of weeks ago. We have an old demonstration model slide-rule about 2m long that has been stashed in a back storeroom at school for ages. Some of the younger staff were amazed at what could be worked out with the old analogue computer. :-) Regards, Ray. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
