Didn't want to go near it, in case I got a splinter. Somewhere, I have the circular one I bought in my first year of sixth form.
> On 28 March 2021 at 19:25 "P. J. Alling" <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Did no one else recognize the horrible pun? > > On 3/28/2021 2:19 PM, Alan C 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? > > > > Alan C > > > > On 28-Mar-21 08:12 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> > >>> On Mar 28, 2021, at 7:27 AM, Stanley Halpin > >>> <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Occasionally I hear of people who still prefer to use a slide rule > >>> rather than the calculator on their phone. I would probably be one > >>> of those persons if only I had learned how to use the slide rule! > >> Give it a try, using a slide rule is as easy as falling off a log. > >>> Stan -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
