[TexasAggie65]

Slide Rules for us seasoned engineers were also called "slipsticks."

[redwhit]

I remember. I was never an engineer but my dad was and insisted I learn how to use his (still protected and safely encased in the belt holster). As a kid I could never figure out the point when there were perfectly good $10 calculators all around.

[spinestein]

[Slide Rules for us seasoned engineers were also called "slipsticks."]


Jeez, that sounds like it could turn into one of those rambling Grampa Simpson stories he always tells Bart that begins, "Back in my day we used to wear an onion on our belt, because that was the style at the time, though it was one of those yellow onions, not one of the white onions, of course back then we called onions 'beets'...".