Alun Palmer wrote in message .. .
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?

w3rv


That's about right on the dates, except that there were very few
calculators around back then. I remember my dad paying the equivalent of
about $250 for a rather large four-function calculator c1970-1971 ish. It
was made by Sharp. Sinclair had a cheaper one, but you had to build it
from a kit!

Sure they were out there in that timeframe. I forget exactly what year
it was, maybe '71, when I paid $200 for a four-function Japanese-made
Canon calculator. Beautifully finished, solid as a rock. They were
sold by Canon itinerent peddlers who went out knocking on the doors of
tech-based companies which is how I got mine. I happen to prefer HP
RPN calculators which are no longer available in stores. My 1983 HP
32S died about three years ago but HP still sells the things direct.
It's a cult calculator and HP supports the cult. Odd . . !

Also, high school (at least it's sometimes called that, amongst other
things) is usually age 11-18 in the UK, so it takes in middle
school/junior high (although in some areas of the UK there are middle
schools, just to confuse the issue).

It's all the same ball of wax. The regime I plodded thru was into
first grade at five, into junior high school for seventh grade, then
into high school for tenth thru twelfth grades, pop out at 17-18.

w3rv