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To: HartleyMBaldwin
Still know where the old Pickett is, though nowadays I use the HP 15C that I bought in 1984. That 15C sold me on reverse Polish notation,...

I still use my 15C, and I fully agree with your sentiments on RPN. Much easier to use.

On another topic, none of the kids in my Calculus class had ever seen a slide rule until I brought my Post in.

91 posted on 03/13/2022 11:52:01 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: sima_yi

Once, just after my TI calculator died, I was doing a geophysics problem set, in a lab where a bunch of us would study after hours. I was using my slide rule, and the younger students kept asking about it, saying how their dads used to have one and so forth. I ended up giving slide-rule lessons for much of the evening.


92 posted on 03/13/2022 12:13:43 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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