> From: Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com> > That was called a slide rule and I learned how to use one. I couldn't > remember today but I could re learn. > To think we sent men to space using slide rules. > > Sam. > > Chuck Cole wrote: > >>In the mid '60s, we were still doing math by rubbing sticks together >> :-) Scientific American has an article in the Jan. 04 issue about a handheld mechanical calculator with an 8-digit readout. Designed by a Jew in a concentration camp. It cost $125 though, so when the fancy LED calculators got down to that price, they stopped making them. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0008177C-EA28-1FD3-A7EA83414B7F012C&catID=2 Very cool story. You have to subscribe or get the paper version to read it, though. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list