On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 15:05, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > Pickett was a good brand. I really didn't like plastic slide rules > because they were jerky to operate: stiction.
I thought the circular ones were an interesting idea but I only had a cheap plastic straight one. https://www.sliderule.tokyo/products/detail.php?product_id=8 The year after I learned "slide rule" in high school, training was dropped because calculators were becoming the norm. -- Scott --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
