We’ll still use slide rules when we have starships…
We’ll still use slide rules when we have starships…
Spock had to go old school because the Romulans blew an EMP.
I still have the one I bought when I learned to fly around 1976.
Let’s see, low speed side for 40 to 270 knots, high speed for 200 knots to warp 10.
Yep. Private pilots had the circular one, the “E6B”(?) for flight planning, along with our logbook and Sectional Charts.
That’s an old E4-B Fight Computer. I got one issued to me in USAF Navigator School in 1984...
What amazed me about the article was he was making $125,000 a year fixing and reselling slide rules back in the early 2000’s. I saw a story about Google Adsense prior to 2010 and a retired guy was making more money retired from it then when he was working. His site was about electric motors.