[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch 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. ;-)

When I first started college at Lousiana Tech University, a slide rule 
was a requirement for all EE majors.  I actually learned to use a 
sliderule in high school.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
  - Benjamin Franklin