On 26/07/15 05:58, Felmon Davis wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
On Sat, 2015-07-25 at 14:54 -0400, James Knott wrote:
On 07/25/2015 09:35 AM, Graham P Davis wrote:
> We only had log tables; standard slide rules weren't allowed as they
> were too inaccurate. Drifting a bit more OT, ball-point pens
weren't allowed either, only fountain pens.
>
> To put this in some sort of perspective, I left school in 1962
aged 18.
Did they have slide rules way back then? ;-)
We used them in physics and electricity & electronics classes.
Yes, that was shortly after they finally ditched the abacus
and thus ends this excursus into archaic calculation devices.
(though I do wonder when people learned to use fingers or digits to
count...<g>.)
f.
This seems to be degenerating into the the Four Yorkshiremen -luxury!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
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