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slide rules

dhruva — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:31:58 -0800

Virtual slide rules , a gallery and some hoaxes.

By: hades

hades — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:52:53 -0800

Neat! A friend of mine has a pretty good collection of slide rules and other calculating devices, too.

By: magpie68

magpie68 — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:13:18 -0800

My dad had a circular slide rule - they were company issue. I played with it as a kid. Guess that's why I have problems making friends.

By: rpn

rpn — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:45:32 -0800

Interesting. Got me to google the old slide rule that mostly been sitting on my shelf for 5-10 years something, and it seems the same model (faber castell novo duplex 2/83N) have been sold for anything from $20 to $180 at ebay... I always thought it was worthless...

By: dg

dg — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:58:30 -0800

Heh, the other day my Mother gave me the slide rule I used in school and one that my Grandfather had. I had been meaning to search for some instructions (like almost everything I learned in school, I have forgotten how to use it). Thanks for saving me the trouble!

By: Pericles

Pericles — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:00:08 -0800

what the bloody hell is a "slide rule"

By: wah

wah — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:10:53 -0800

what the bloody hell is a "slide rule" An abacus with numbers printed on it.

By: katinka-katinka

katinka-katinka — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:11:52 -0800

Here's another nice collection of slide rules, including the very rare V-69 V-69 Hey! Alka-Juster.

By: wsg

wsg — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:33:34 -0800

Geekiest. Thread. Ever.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:47:55 -0800

Pickett used to sell every slide rule with A teaching guide for slide rule instruction [pdf], by Maurice L. Hartung -- my grandfather. We had a briefcase full of sample slide rules from his career, which is now on permanent loan to -- I think -- the University of Wisconsin, where he began his academic career. Geek cred? Well, I thought it was cool to take one of those slide rules to junior high school. (It came with a leather case!) I learned differently.

By: dhruva

dhruva — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:24:04 -0800

In my school, we were banned from taking calculators to exams, so I just used an old slide rule that I sorta inherited from my grandfather (he was an engineer). None of the teachers suspected that it was anything more than a fancy ruler :)

By: mss

mss — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:00:55 -0800

Being in one of the last freshman engineering classes that had to learn how to use a slide rule I was taught by a grad student from India that was going to return to India after the school year and, with his family, start a slide rule factory. I have always wondered how that worked out.

By: tomharpel

tomharpel — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:52:22 -0800

This is *very* good.

By: RockyChrysler

RockyChrysler — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:13:12 -0800

my father, a civil engineer of the old-school variety, likewise collects sliderules...

By: magpie68

magpie68 — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:28:13 -0800

what the bloody hell is a "slide rule" Jeez how old am I exactly?