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"Simulated Pickett N4-ES Slide Rule". (For all you egg heads.)
AntiQuark ^
| Feb 6, 2005
| Derek
Posted on 01/26/2013 9:50:45 AM PST by Islander7
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This is a fully functional, virtual slide rule, the sort used to land Neil and Buzz on the moon.
Have fun!!
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posted on
01/26/2013 9:50:50 AM PST
by
Islander7
To: Islander7
I don’t need this one. I’ve got my own in my office drawer.
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posted on
01/26/2013 9:54:17 AM PST
by
raybbr
(People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
To: Islander7
My first year of college chemistry 101 we had a test where we had to compute the number of moles, of whatever it was and it was a simple problem. When I was attending Tech, at least that first year, they still used slide rules although those spanking new TI-55s were just coming on scene.
I still had the slide rule, and the problem was actually an exercize if you knew how to use one....add/subtract instead of multiply/divide using logarithms....
About the time I finished the problem, I heard a bunch of moans and glanced up around the lecture hall and I saw a bunch of TIs/equivalents with their LEDs blinking “EEEEEEEEEEEE....”
The prof set it up where they’d overflow....
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posted on
01/26/2013 9:57:58 AM PST
by
Gaffer
To: raybbr
In HS, everyone had to get a slide rule..of course, this was in 1961. I had a K&E log-log-decitrig..got pretty good at using it, too..
And somewhere in the basement, I think I still have a Frieden. Wonder if it's worth anything..or worth enough to did around for.
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:03:25 AM PST
by
ken5050
("One useless man is a shame, two are a law firm, three or more are a Congress".. John Adams)
To: Islander7
I'm not a total slide rule obsessive, but I do have a small collection.
Pickett N3 ES
K&E Deci-Lon
K&E Log Log Duplex Decitrig
Hemmi 259D (the rule I used in school)
Faber-Castell 283N (IMO the coolest rule ever)
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:06:16 AM PST
by
Notary Sojac
(Ut veniant omnes)
To: Islander7
I had a K+E in high school, carried it on my belt in its leather case. By my senior year, it was replaced by a Texas Instruments SR-52.
Not that either one did me much good. I flunked out of Differential Equations in college...
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:07:57 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Islander7
Or as my daughter would ask - is there an App for that, dad?
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:12:44 AM PST
by
llevrok
(Unlike Obama, at least Nero could play a fiddle.)
To: Islander7
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:14:52 AM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
To: Islander7
Really interesting. They were gone by the time I was in any school at all.
How did you make that?
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:20:35 AM PST
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: Islander7
By the time I went through school we weren’t taught to use these. Thanks for sparking a few minutes of interest... I can kind-of do basic multiplication now :P
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:21:27 AM PST
by
TheZMan
(Buy more ammo.)
To: Islander7
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:22:32 AM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Islander7
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:27:03 AM PST
by
SunTzuWu
To: Islander7; potlatch; PhilDragoo
Great post! My Dad used his to design electrical equipment for the New York City and other subway systems, the monorails at Seattle and original Disneyland, and rail cars that dumped the cement for the Glen Canyon Dam in AZ. It was literally the last item he removed from his desk when he retired at age 80, though he’d switched to computer long before then.
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:29:36 AM PST
by
ntnychik
To: Islander7
I have a Pickett All-American hanging on the wall of my office. It is 4 feet long. When people ask me about it I tell them I use it for really big problems.
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:29:58 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Islander7; All
I don’t have a slide rule, but do have a Curta Type II calculator in its original box with original instructions thta I bought in early 1970 to do estate and tax work. In 1971 the first of the electronic calculators came out, making my Curta instantly obsolete, so I decided to keep it as a curio that might someday be very valuable. Right now it’s worth about $1,300 vs. the original price of about $150.00.
To: Islander7
I still have my K&E log-log-decitrig that I had in the 50s in college, I still carry it in my glove box in my pickup.
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:36:37 AM PST
by
dalereed
To: Islander7
Why would I want to be tied to a computer, when my Post slide rule is right here in it’s leather case on my belt?
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:46:03 AM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
To: TruthShallSetYouFree
To: Islander7
I got a slide rule as a gift from an uncle who was an aeronautical engineer @ McDonnel Douglas in St Louis... I had just barely learned to use it to do simple multiplication when it was confiscated by a math teacher while I was playing with it in class. I never did get it back from that old hag!
Mark
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:52:02 AM PST
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
To: Islander7
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posted on
01/26/2013 10:53:21 AM PST
by
MarkL
(Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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