Kinda sucks that I missed out on being able to get one of the nifty slide-rules as well. The wonderful tools designed by engineers that ran very specific ‘programs’ to perform custom calculations. On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:23 PM Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 4:54 PM Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Jeff, Among the slide rules are there any 6" or so in length? I used to keep a
I didn't any.
short slide rule like that in my car to calulate gas mileage. I canceled rather than try to drive thru NYC during the snow. Jim
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 21:21:31 -0500 From: Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> To: vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org Cc: Jeffrey Jonas <jeffrey.scott.jonas@gmail.com> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] slide rule manuals & instructions
The boxed sets usually include instructions. I scanned some:
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