That must have been an IBM decision on the original SliderRule 8080 to limit it to the
first 12 inches. Of course
Slider Rules today are much, much longer as the price of RAM (Rather Affordable
Mahogany) for slide length as
plummeted to an all time low of 30c per Mb. But under SlideDOS (Do Our Sums) operating
system you could only use
the first 12 inches... It sucked! You had all that wood in front of you but it was
useless for most purposes....
Fortunately in 1986 the folks at PharLap wrote a slider rule extender that can take
you to 7'8", and more recently
Microsoft Windows has expanded the rule sideways to balance a whole house of rules
(cards) on top of the original
12"s... Of course if you really exercise your programs in Windows it may all come
tumbling down, so M$ came up with
SlideRuleNT - No Towers - that only crashes once a week...
Meanwhile a wild group of penguins from Finland came up with SlinuxRule which never
crashes... which proves that OS
really stands for Open Source....
.... and folks even expect to use PalmRules in there hands .... sorta makes you teary
eyed for the old days when you
could do all the calculation in the world in your hand held slide rule....
- Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/
Jon Hall wrote:
> Oh man....
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> "No one will ever need more than 12 inches."
>
> jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: www.cfbabes.com & www.cf-community.com
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> > Does your slide rule run CF? Any plans from Macromedia to support this OS?
> If they did....
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> > it would RULE!
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> > Major duck and cover req here...
> > - Michael Smith, TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/
> >
> > Chris Montgomery wrote:
> >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Michael Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:28 PM
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > > > I also recall programming those TI-58 programmable calculators -
> > > > sorta like machine code with math operators. They
> > > > was even a moon lander game for it!
> > >
> > > I had a TI-50, an earlier model programmable calculator. In fact, I may
> > > still have it around somewhere. Hmmm...wonder if it'd be worth anything
> > > today? And I think my slide rule is around .... yep, still in my desk
> > > drawer! :)
> > >
> > > Chris
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