Re: Slide rule Message #13 Posted by Wes Loewer on 8 Oct 2011, 6:53 a.m., in response to message #10 by David Hayden
For those of you who enjoy using calculator emulators, here's one to add to your collection:
http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/n909es/virtual-n909-es.html
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but by the time I entered high school in 1977, absolutely no one (students or teachers) used them.
I also entered high school in '77. In 11th grade chemistry ('79-80), we were required to use slide rules -- no calculators allowed. It was the last year of that policy. I was one of only two kids in the school who had a circular slide rule.
It was a cheap promotional slide rule (Concise Model 700-MM) but I really liked it. It had an insert with lots of conversion factors with cm & inch rulers down the sides. Unfortunately, I left it on the back dash of the car once and it warped such that the numbers no longer lined up properly.
It looked like this picture, but had "Compliments of Allied Chemical Corporation."
-wes
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