Ah yes... the good old days.  I cant claim to have had the ultimate
sybol of geekdom. ( the sliderule holster)

I teach math, and took my slide rule to class the other day. The
students were actually quite interested in how it worked, but of course
the three colour, electonic graphing  calculators of today are much more
interesting, especially as they can be linked to  pass messages,
programs, - yes even answers - between students.

mind you I can still do calculations in my head before they can get
their calculators fired up.

Five figure tables... anyone remember those.  The thickness of the
tables book was a fair indication of how geeky you were at my high
school. The also-rans only had the basic schoolboy version, but us
others.....

Tim R






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