<VV> slide rule...with corvair content?

[mark at noakes.com]

My freshman engineering class fall 74 was the last one that required a 
slide rule; the next year calculators were required.  Though I used a 
circular slide rule in high school (still have it), I used my dad's K&E 
slide rule from the 1950s in college...still have it.  Purchased a HP 
calculator shortly thereafter that ran me all thru school...still have 
it.  Corvair content?  My 66 Monza ran me all thru college during that 
time...undergrad engineering and co-op at NASA/Langley...still have it 
too.

Nothing wrong with slide rules...engineering ran on them well into the 
1970s.

Of course...I also remember computer punch cards, batch processing, 
TTYs, and dumb terminals...but we won't go there...

Mark Noakes

----Original Message----
From: fry_cook at excite.com
Date: Jan 26, 2007 11:37 
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Subj: &lt;VV&gt; slide rule

 John: I took a 1/4 credit class in slide rule my senior year of high 
school. Just after that I began to see these huge expensive hand held 
calculators. This was in 1971. Don SchaeferMinnesota

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