Ah a fellow RPI'er! I was one of the minions lugging my Keuffel & Esser up and down the hills of Troy, but lo and behold a piece of pocket-sized engineering beauty began to appear on campus (among those lucky, or rich enough) - the HP-35 "slide rule" pocket calculator! It would be a few calculator generations later that I could afford one (the HP-21) but I was hooked for life on HP and RPN! Nothin like em! - Glenn
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of systems_glitch via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2017 7:10 PM To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: systems_glitch <systems.glitch@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Slide rules, lots and lots of 'em
Wonder if they'll have any of the classroom sized ones -- Amy had one in their graduate office at RPI that must've been a yard long!
Thanks, Jonathan
On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Brian Schenkenberger via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic writes:
Someone is donating 20 boxes of slide rules. He said some of common and some are rare/exotic.
We'll keep the latter and probably sell many of the former at VCF East or whatever.
Ooooo! I still have my K&E Log-Log Duplex Decitrig and case from my HS and college days. I had a second one too (a short 8" SR) but I don't recall the make. I'll need to dig it out of the mothballs. ;)