Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>How many of us still OWN a slide rule? >How many of us still USE a slide rule? The current Breitling pilot watches (Navitimer, etc.) incorporate a circular slide ruler. It is very practical for instance when travelling and converting currencies. You just look at your watch, where you have turned the slide rule to point to the exchange rate and you can immediately read the amount in foreign currency. Much faster than a pocket calculator. >-- Original-Nachricht -- >From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> >To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M" >Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:24:54 -0800 >Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > >Speaking of slide rules, which of course, we were not really doing... > >MIT has the old K+E collection of slide rules. I wonder if BD or someone >else knows if they are available on display? > >Apparently there are some really weird ones..... > >I found the article in my father's copy of the MIT Alumni journal. >Apparently the "curator" thought that the really large, around 6 foot, slide >rule for teaching was really rare.... She looked around 30 years old. > >How many of us in our 50's or 40's were put through slide rule learning >using one of these old timers? >How many of us still remember how to use a slide rule? >How many of us still OWN a slide rule? >How many of us still USE a slide rule? > >Old Timers........Youngsters....... and Slide rules.... > >Frank Filippone >red735i@earthlink.net > > > > Yes I know that there are a handful of so-called >"classic" computer collectors, like slide rule collectors. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information