Remember the slide rule? (page 3)

justhuman

No I don't, besides I didn't care the end was soooooooooooooooo close

eyeslice --- yes I used log tables also --- I have thus used mental math, log tables, slide rules, calculators, progrmable calculators, computers , BASIC, Fortran, Pascal, Visual Basic , Windows -- my generation was fortunate in many ways

highplainschristian

I still have 3 slide rules from my high school days. It seems that some people collect them and will pay top dollar for some of them. I have one that if it were still new in the box could get me about $225.

Darryl

drwtsn32

if it were still new in the box could get me about $225.

Ah.... gotta love ebay! Now where'd I put my Commodore VIC-20?

LittleToe

LOL @ Watson.
That takes me back. I still have my old C64 up in the attic somewhere. I got a PC emulator, a few years ago, for nostalgia's sakes.

I didn't realise slide rules could fetch hard currency. Hmmm, thinks...

onacruse

Hi Darryl! Welcome to JWD

So you had three slide-rules?? Wouldn't happen to be tri-dextrous, wouldya?

Craig

Carmel

I was on our highschool slide rule team that took 1st place in our district. Unfortunately, we didn't have the financial backing like the sports teams to go to state....

Oh well....

carm

minimus

Brother Russell used this handy little instrument to figure out the meaning of the pyramids. It is very, very useful.

Surreptitious

I have a foot but I don't use it as a rule.

Navigator

Sure I remember the slide rule. I still have a Post Versalog which was top of the line bamboo. I studied Civil Engineering in college and you had to have one as electronic calculators hadn't become available yet. You could always spot the Engineers on campus because they had a slide rule hanging from their belt. I used a circular slide rule for the next 20 years as a Navigator in the USAF. It was called an E6B and was marked to solve for airspeed, altitude, wind, drift, etc.. When I went back to graduate school to get my Masters in Engineering some 14 years later, I didn't see a single slide rule on campus, but all of the engineers had little packets on their belt where they carried their scientific engineering calculator.

Remember the slide rule?