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To: jennyp
Nothing beats The Addiator.

A slide rule certainly does not. (You cannot add using a "slip stick") That was one of the few chuckles I got during the movie "Apollo 13." They were adding numbers using their slide rules. :)

1,505 posted on 03/23/2002 12:11:51 AM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer; jennyp
You cannot add using a "slip stick"

At least one manufacturer of slide rules, Faber Castell (German, I think) attached Addiators to the back of several slide rule models. I own one of those. Big-time retro.

1,508 posted on 03/23/2002 2:44:00 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: RadioAstronomer
(You cannot add using a "slip stick")

Yes, you can. Use the C, D, and L scales.(I have a Post)

1,509 posted on 03/23/2002 2:46:24 AM PST by AndrewC
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