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Old September 13th 03, 06:05 AM
Jeffrey Herman
 
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Brian Kelly wrote:
The world was blessed with your codeless presence on Nov 11 1957.
Handheld calculators rendered slide rules obsolete when you were
14-15. Are you still using Leydon jars for capacitors Alun?


The basic four-function handheld calculator was still about $600
when he was 17; at least that's what we were selling them for at
RS at that time.

I was still using a slide rule in my 1980 college physics class.

Jeff KH6O
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Operations Specialist 1st, U.S. Coast Guard
Mathematics Lecturer, University of Hawaii System