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Old 08-17-2006, 08:51 AM   #47 (permalink)
maleficent
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
Interesting thing about sliderules. We have 8 engineers on staff where I work. Not one of 'em know how to work a sliderule. True. Sad, but true
back in my day, those hp programmable calculators that you can buy for 9.99 at target were several hundred dollars... slide rules were the cheap way to go and very efficient.
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