m II wrote:
D Peter Maus wrote:

Nerd? 'Squares' is more like it. With pocket protectors...and six inch
Sun-Hemmi bamboo slide rules.

Actually, mine's aluminum. And circular.


All the better to shield oneself from the bent paper clips shot via the
magnum India Rubber bands. Those thin coloured rubber bands were a joke
in comparison.

My dad had a round one too, but it was for ease of flight path
calculations and wind corrections.


I have an E6b, as well. But I used my round slide rule for damned
near everything.

I had a Bowmar Brain when they were first released. And a Sinclair
Scientific. Neither were either fast enough, or versatile enough to
replace the sliderule.

That, however, has changed.





mike