<VV> Re: Slide Rule

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Powerless

-Mark

J1M1SH at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In high school from 1971-75 we had to use slide rules because everyone
> couldn't afford the $100+ for a Bomar brain or Texas Inst. calculator. The slid
> only gave you three positions so you had to do some thinking in your  head to
> know if the answer was 10, 100, 1000 or 1/100. Todays kids plug  numbers into
> $1.99 supercomputers and have no idea where the answer comes from.  Where would
> they be without batteries.
>