<VV> Sliderules:

[Terry Denk]

I still have my sliderule with the leather holster that fits on your belt 
and my original CRC math tables.  I actually had to look up something in the 
math tables last month (calculus integral for a weir drawdown).

Terry Denk, P.E.
65 monza vert
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris & Bill Strickland" <lechevrier at earthlink.net>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 5:50 PM
Subject: <VV> Sliderules:


> 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
>
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