Schools, etc. (was Re: "Dummies" books (was ...))

[Bob Stockler]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:25:27PM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
| Doug Luurs, the prominent pundit, on Tue, Oct 26 15:05  while half 
| mumbling half-witicized: 
| 
| > *LAUGHS* .. Oh please .. That brings back memories of the OLE days.
| > (I had one of those calc'r too..hehe)
| 
| > Another Funny thing is .. I still have my slide rule! 
| 
| I still have mine too. Cost about $40 in the 1950s. A Post made
| of split bamboo. You could always tell all of us who were EE
| majors as we all had bamboo slide-rules.

Mine, bought in 1945, was a K&E Log-Log Duplex DeciTrig (if
memory serves me right) and it's still around here somewhere.
I don't know if it was made of bamboo or some other wood, but
it certainly wasn't made of metal or plastic (though two metal
thingies at each end held the outer rules together).

I learned how to us a slide rule by usin to 12 inch rulers to
do addition.

Bob

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