I still have one somewhere. Calculus <per Paul> and slide rules are
obsolete. Used to see engineering and physical science students
walking around campus with them slung from their belts.

Times change.

It really does seem such a shame that those things that took so much time to
learn and/or get good at, like calculus, slide rules, intricacies of women,
etc. are just gone by the wayside. That passage of time and aging stuff
really is the bitch they all said it was. Maybe we really do have this aging
stuff backwards. <g>
jofarr, soddy tn

I still have two Pickett slides, and one circular (from the military).
My class at Lowell Tech was the last to have exams for those with rules,
and the "wealthy" who could afford calculators.
The calculator types were given a bit less time, and had to add two decimal
places.
I taught at a local college for nine years, and made it a point to show
students
the principle on which slide rules worked.
Archie


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