<VV> Sliderules:

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

For all you younger guys, let me give you a bit of timeline -- When I 
graduated from Oregon State (with an engineering major) in 1970, we were 
still using sliderule techniques for calculations, but the the incoming 
freshmen for 1971 were required to have this $300+ HP (those were 1970 
dollars, and a term's tuition was substantially less than that). It was 
the next year or so that we bought a TI SR-10 (it did square roots, but 
no memory) (and in our case, those particular batteries are long gone).

So, the moral of the story? -- Calculators must have caused the demise 
of the Corvair   <ho, ho>, or maybe it is just the type of people that 
use calculators ...

Sorry for the interruption, but sometimes it is still nice to be able to 
calculate caster, piston displacement, etc from measurements without 
having to go get fresh batteries or boot up the shop computer ...

Bill Strickland