[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[Ned Williams]

I dunno given that the use of slide rule skill was replaced with the use of
reverse polar notation I would say it all evens out in the end :D

Ned


On D:08 PM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:47 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Here's the first computer I worked with:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/2k7lde
>
> :-)
>
> > Later one of these:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/32sob9
>
> I recall reading something a few years back that blamed the poor quality
> of EE students coming out of schools on the lack of teaching
> sliderulers.   I never studied sliderulers in school, but I do recall my
> father (now a retired mechanical engineer) teaching me how to use one
> when I was a kid.  I can't say that I ever have used that skill, but it
> hasn't hurt knowing it. ;-)
>
> -Jim P.
>
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