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- From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)
- Subject: Re: Obscure Help Needed
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:28:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.172831.14882@julian.uwo.ca>
- References: <1992Nov11.013658.6395@julian.uwo.ca> <1992Nov11.152829.25858@pixel.kodak.com>
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- In article <1992Nov11.152829.25858@pixel.kodak.com> dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:
- >James Davis Nicoll (jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca) displaying brain-death wrote:
- >>
- >> An embarrassing request: my HP died and I discover I cannot
- >> remember how to do logs with a slide-rule, nor can I find my sr-related
- >> texts. Clearly, I am senile. Anyone out there recall how the damn things
- >> work?
- >>
- >You're serious, right? I mean praying to the netgods is easier than dashing
- >down to the university bookstore with a $10 bill in hand? OK, maybe you'd
- >need $20 for a calculator these days.
- >
- Advice for the slide-rule-challenged deleted
-
- Yes, it was a stupid request. At least I didn't
- ask for the time...
-
- I still find it hard to believe that I could so completely
- forget a skill I used every day not so long ago. It's also hard to
- believe no book store seems to stock books on the subject anymore.
- Are there no slide-rule makers left?
-
- At least sliderules never run out of power, nor do they suddenly
- decide to display '0.00' only, just when the user is calculating mass
- ratios.
-
- >Now when is my 1965 Faber-Castell going to become a collectors' item?
-
- I think it may be already...
-
- James Nicoll
-
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