back in the day, my uncle worked at ibm and used to love to invent new slide rules and have them fabricated at IBM. he had quite a few, unique to his very particular specifications.
and then came calculators and ruined all the fun. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Wilton Strickland <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > 'Course, there all sorts of specialty "slide rules," especially circular > ones. I've seen 'em for air navigation, star finders, guided missile > programing, engineering, nuke weapons effects, etc, etc. > > Wilton > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "LWB250" <lwb...@yahoo.com> > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 10:45 AM > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Strategic Air Command > > > Coudal Partners had a great page a few months ago with a whole bunch of > different slide rule/calculators for various nuclear warfare needs. Most > of > them were of the circular calculator type. > > I tried to find the page but it's already been dumped off the end of their > list because it was over two months ago. > > I'll keep looking. It was pretty cool. > > Dan > > > --- On Sat, 2/7/09, Wilton Strickland <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > > From: Wilton Strickland <wilt...@nc.rr.com> > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Strategic Air Command > > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 10:27 AM > > Maybe so. > > > > Wilton > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "LWB250" <lwb...@yahoo.com> > > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 8:30 AM > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Strategic Air Command > > > > > > I don't think so. I believe he was using one of > > these: > > > > http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/poundh.jpg > > > > Dan > > > > > > --- On Sat, 2/7/09, Jim Cathey <j...@windwireless.net> > > wrote: > > > > > From: Jim Cathey <j...@windwireless.net> > > > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - Strategic Air Command > > > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > > > Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 12:32 AM > > > > In the last scene, Dr. > > > Strangelove, while talking to the President, uses a > > > > small, circular true airspeed (TAS) computer to > > > computer the length of time > > > > people would need to survive down in mines > > waiting for > > > radiation to reduce > > > > to a survivable level on the surface. 'Don't see > > > any of that stuff on my > > > > TAS computer here in my desk. > > > > > > There were circular slide rules, I think that's what > > they > > > were alluding to, even if they did film the TAS > > dingus. > > > > > > -- Jim > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090207/8b6037fb/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
