[Sequoyah101]

Some of us did not recognize how fast and how much things were going to change. I went from hand written reports from a scratchy phone call and SSB radios, 5 different radios and mobile phones in my car, buying the very first PC and Apple SE30 and laptop a Grid for a major oil company and a slide rule in college.

[Albion Wilde]

One of my favorite scenes from the movie version of Tom Wolf’s book The Right Stuff, which was about the first manned space flight, was when the astronauts radioed back to NASA, “Houston, we have a problem!” and the large roomful of aeronautical engineers whipped out their slide rules. It’s often amazing to see how much people accomplished without digital equipment.