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

[Bill Vermillion]

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On Fri, Oct 29 20:29  Bob Stockler said: 

> 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).

And a couple of years ago as I was going through things
I found my old circular slide rule. It's about 8-10" diameter.
When I found that I had forgotten those had exsisted.

And somewhere there are the drafting tools too.

In retropsect I would not have been happy as an engineer - and the
University I attended was a power school - so I'd probably have
wound up in some hydro-electric facility.

Broadcasting and later recording suited my personality better.
Those came before computers.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com