Gimme a slide rule
My daughter, in a college class, was told *No calculators for the tests*.
She came in with a slide rule and asked if she could use that. The TA was shocked that she knew how but said, well, it’s not a calculator and there’s no rule about slide rules, so go ahead.
Once Isaac Asimov was asked about problems with revising so many books including astronomy topic and physics ones if needed (40 novels, 383 short stories, 280+ non-fiction books, and about 147 edited works, with some estimates reaching 506 to over 540 total works).
He mentioned his book on the slide rule which had now become useless and obsolete except as a museum style artifact.
Used to fit into those plastic pocket protectors of the guys who never had a date.
Here’s an obscure humor book by “Dr.A” (Asimov):
The Sensuous Dirty Old Man (1971).
Example. He said an old man sitting on a park bench watching braless young girls in T shirts and tight sweaters go past had better not fixate on nipples. The quick movements that were closely followed by the eyes and the inability to take them off the subjects can lead to “nipple shock”-—a possibly serious medical condition.
That actually dates the book for the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Does anyone know how to use a slide rule anymore?