Hello Jeff.
27 Aug 97 01:48, Jeff Edmonson wrote to Ray Wade:
 JE>
 >> I can remember taking a course in operating a slide rule in
 >> first-year engineering college. The prof had a BIG slide rule on
 >> the wall to demonstrate with. About 10 feet long. He was
 >> demonstrating how to multiply 2*4 and announced that the
 >> answer was 3.98. Close enough...
 JE>
 JE> The first pentium powered Slide-Rule!  };->
 JE>
 JE> I've still got an old slide-rule around here...
 JE>
 JE> Never did learn how to use that thing, but sure would like to know...
Why?  I threw mine away when I bought my first battery powered calculator in 
1967.  In order to use the slide rule, to say; figure the angles and sides of 
a triangle, you still needed a chart of Sines, Co-Sines and Tangents.  So you 
didn't just carry the slide rule around, you also lugged a book of trig 
functions too...
 JE> ...while I can still SEE the numbers on it!
Quit handling it so much.
... Sign at the grocery store sez, "Pet Supplies". So I did!
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