| From: James Knott via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| My first calculator was a Rapidman 800, which sold for about $100 at Eaton's,
| IIRC.
<https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/items/show/28>
Interesting vignette:
<https://museum.eecs.yorku.ca/items/show/28>
I remember seeing the initial ad campaign. A big price drop from other
calculators. But it only had 4 functions. I had been given a scientific
calculator by then, if I remember correctly. Oddity: floating point but
no scientific notation -- crazy.
| BTW, as I mentioned the other day, I still have a slide rule from my high
| school days. It's a Pickett Microline 120 and it still works 56 years later!
| By the time I got to Ryerson, I was using a calculator.
<https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1214517>
Pickett was a good brand. I really didn't like plastic slide rules
because they were jerky to operate: stiction.
Some fancy Pickets were supposedly made from magnesium to avoid this
<https://utsic.utoronto.ca/wpm_instrument/pickett-ortho-phase-log-log-slide-rule-model-number-500/>
I liked Sun Hemmi slide rules because they were made of bamboo. I still
have one somewhere. Or maybe two.
<http://www.sliderule.ca/hemmi.htm>
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