> On Mar 28, 2021, at 11:27 AM, Bob Pdml <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 28 Mar 2021, at 19:19, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In my youth I was a Whizz kid with a slide rule. Took over my Dad's & later >> bought a better one. I taught a couple of generations of Sixth Formers how >> to use them and then along came the Scientific Calculator. End of story. >> Anyone want a Slide Rule? > > In the first computer room I worked in as a programmer, in 1981, there was a > glass case on the wall, labelled “In case of emergency break glass”. It > contained an abacus.
There was a time when I thought it a good idea to make a hexadecimal slide rule. http://www.red4est.com/lrc/hexslide.txt <http://www.red4est.com/lrc/hexslide.txt> -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
