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Old June 8th 10, 03:26 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.moderated
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On 6/7/2010 4:49 PM, K6LHA wrote:
Me, I'm going to keep my nice K&E Duplex Decitrig slide rule (from
high school) as a memento of when "design" meant to 3-decimal-places
tops or having to look in tables of logarithms (and do by-hand
interpolation) to get 5 decimal places.


Funny you should mention that Len, I still have mine too, albeit I
bought mine used.

Speaking of PICs, you see the nifty test equipment in the recent QST
magazines using one of those to do all the "ugly" stuff?

Jeff-1.0
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