I remember my father, now a long-retired engineer, moving a circular
slide rule so fast that it seemed to smoke! But, I got out of
engineering after two years of college and transferred to Cornell
('68) where I earned a BS in Wildlife Biology so I could work
outdoors and get paid for it. I still have my slide rule, still know
how to use it and every once in awhile, drag it out and demonstrate
it to some young hot-shot computer whiz who had never seen one
before. Of course, a slide rule doesn't use much electricity - very
useful during a power failure.
Fred
>Interesting fact: the SR71 (the ultimate spy plane) was built using slide
>rules. Very few planes, if ever ( well there are rumors of aurora), can
>match it's performance. Kelly Johnson (and slide rules) still rocks.
>
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Fred Stevens K2FRD
Please visit VO2/K2FRD's Labrador DXpedition 2001 page:
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http://sites.netscape.net/thefred3/homepage
Or, visit K2FRD's personal page:
http://sites.netscape.net/thefred3/k2frd
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