On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I grew up using slide rules, and programming mainframe computers and > minicomputers, but I felt no loyalty toward that technology. I have a bamboo Post Versalog leather cased slide rule in my office. Our intern engineers do not know what it is or what to believe when I tell them that it was the calculator that took us to the moon. I make them read the instruction book and do some simple calculations with the rule out of spite for their youth! T
