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| | | Dan Boger <dan@giccs.georgetown.edu> wrote in message news:38DAB195.7540B3...own.edu... (...) it (...) hi Sheree is just the name of a movie star my mom liked many ... years ago, Sheree North. (If you think I'm going to tell you how many years I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | (...) If it makes you feel any better, so did I. I remember my friends all wanted cars for high school graduation, but I just had to have one of the first HP calculators. (Yikes! I guess I really must have been a geek.) : ) Maggie C. (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —James Powell
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| | | | | (...) Ya well...I used one to finish grade 13 with...and I'm NOT old :). I did it for the sillyness of not having a decent calculator...got quite good at using it, but it fades fast. (I had a +-/* calculator, and the slide rule, and a book of (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Ravi Mohan
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| | | | | | | (...) because (...) it (...) By the Way What is a slide rule??? Ravi (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | | | | (...) Slide rule... Hmm... How can I explain?.. I saw one when I was in middle school but never used one (There were Casio 3600Ps when I was a high school student, and Casio 5000s during university) It's kind of a computing tool for logarithms and (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | | | | | | | (...) That's what we used them for-- mainly logarithms as I recall (and I don't recall much!). Maggie (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Frank Filz
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| | | | | | | | | | Maggie Cambron wrote in message (...) recall (...) You can also do multiplication and division (and addition and subtraction I think - don't remember what all scales are on the rule). Also roots and powers (in fact most calculators perform roots (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Sheree Rosenkrantz
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| | | | | | | | ravi <helixwolf2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:FrxC2L.H87@lugnet.com... (...) it (...) using (...) and (...) A sliderule is an instrument used for calculations/operations including multiplication, division, extraction of square roots as (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | | (...) I had a Casio 3600p during high school and a Casio 5000 during university and was very happy with the latter especially. It was a very efficient engineering student tool, AFAIK. It has built in matrix math capability up to 5x5 (including (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Sheree Rosenkrantz
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| | | | | Maggie Cambron <mcambron@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:38DAF681.9F9442...ell.net... (...) wanted (...) HP (...) Hi Maggie I don't mind being "old" :-) . I mind the teflon coating my brain seems to have developed in some instances when I am (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Frank Filz
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| | | | (...) Here's a web page with tons of old HP calculators: (URL) used one of the early desktop models at my dad's work. I also used the original Wang calculator at his work. Fun stuff. I've got an HP 25C at home which I picked several years ago at a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —David C. Pyatt
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| | | | | Gee - in the last year or so I threw out my HP 9830A because something fell on the keyboard and broke a few key caps off beyond repair... brought tears to my eyes to find it broken from an avalance in storage... I had the plotter and the wide (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | Re: Slide rule generation Was Re: Purimish fun —Maggie Cambron
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| | | | (...) Wow, interesting site! As it turns out my calculator wasn't one of the earliest after all but a second generation (now I don't feel so old!). But what really surprises me is that the one I use now (HP 15C) has been discontinued for over ten (...) (24 years ago, 25-Mar-00, to lugnet.people, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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