Back in 94-95 I talked to high schools about computer careers.  I would take in my
slide rule and start the class by holding up the slap-stick and say "this was my
hand held calculator in high school", to which the teacher would ask, "what is
it?".

I believe the slide rule is dead.

Ted Ashton wrote:

>
> Yup.  I finished up my Electrical Engineering degree in December of 1993 (back
> in the dark ages ;-) and while I did actually use a calculator some, I did the
> majority of the calculating I needed to do to get through Engineering school
> on a slide rule, to prove that it could still be done :-).  I expect that there
> are those on this list who can make better use of a slipstick than I, but I'm
> here to tell you that if the slide rule is dead, it's only recently so ;-).
>
> Ted "old fogey" Ashton
> --
> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University
>           ==========================================================
> Mathematicians have long since regarded it as demeaning to work on problems
> related to elementary geometry in two or three dimensions, in spite of the
> fact that it it precisely this sort of mathematics which is of practical
> value.
>                         -- Grunbaum, Branko (1926 - ), and Shephard, G. C. (?)
>           ==========================================================
>          Deep thoughts to be found at http://www.southern.edu/~ashted

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