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Re: old enough to remember Abbott and Costello?
ho428 #214240 11/19/10 04:44 PM
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I had a few foot long multifunction slide rules in Junior High / High School. Nice ones. They kept getting stolen though. Then I had a new fangled Sears calculator, red numerical readout 5 functions, $80. Brutal on batteries.

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Re: old enough to remember Abbott and Costello?
Earlybird #214247 11/19/10 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted By Earlybird
Slide rule thing is a new one on me as well. Pretty much toast nowadays I would guess kinda like the abacus(s)...

well, at a power outage or batteries out, you can still use the slide rule , in daylight or candle.....

if nothing else it comes in handy as a post on FGF! lol

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Re: old enough to remember Abbott and Costello?
ho428 #214290 11/20/10 04:24 AM
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Used a slide rule a lot through high school and college.

Jim
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