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- From: goldm@rpi.edu (Mitchell E. Gold)
- Subject: Re: Obscure Help Needed
- In-Reply-To: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca's message of Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:28:31 GMT
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:12:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.172831.14882@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
- I still find it hard to believe that I could so completely
- forget a skill I used every day not so long ago. It's also hard to
- believe no book store seems to stock books on the subject anymore.
- Are there no slide-rule makers left?
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- My high school's physics class used to teach how to use a slide rule even
- though most people would use calculators. This was stopped in 1984 or 1985
- when the last slide-rule company went out of production. Too bad I didn't
- take physics until 85-86.
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- Mitchell Gold, sundance@rpi.edu
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