In article <op.u2zypidibkkx24@attitude-adjust>, Leszek Karlik <les...@hell.pl> writes
>On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:09:05 +0100, The Older Gentleman ><totallydeadmail...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>[...] >> Turns out it's his uni computing course. OK, so does anyone know if >> there's a sort of Flash slide rule animation out there to play with? I >> couldn't find one.
>Hm, I still should have a slide rule tucked away somewhere from my >primary school days. ("We're not allowed to use calculators during >the tests, what about this?") Hell if I know where, though. :-)
I have a six inch one that I still use to this day. Knowing the result of a calculation to 2 decimal places in a second or two is infinitely preferable to 2 hours searching for fresh batteries to find the same answer to a greater degree of accuracy in the real world. And a slide rule still works after it is dropped or dunked in tea or covered in fag ash.
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:38:45 +0000, steve auvache wibbled:
>> OK, so does anyone know if >>there's a sort of Flash slide rule animation out there to play with? I >>couldn't find one.
> You are fucking joking right? The easiest tool in the world to use for > sums and stuff, even an idiot could understand how to use one.
I came in just after the slide rule generation and remember my old man showing me his slide rule once. It was a piece of piss to understand.
Don't ask me to remember now, mind.
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> Hm, I still should have a slide rule tucked away somewhere from my > primary school days. ("We're not allowed to use calculators during > the tests, what about this?") Hell if I know where, though. :-)
*Primary* school?
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On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:17:57 +0100, R C Nesbit <s...@ukrm.net> wrote:
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>> Hm, I still should have a slide rule tucked away somewhere from my >> primary school days. ("We're not allowed to use calculators during >> the tests, what about this?") Hell if I know where, though. :-)
> *Primary* school?
What can I say, I was an extremely annoying precocious bastard.
In the secondary school we were allowed calculators, so the slide rule was promptly covered by dust and forgotten.
Champ <n...@champ.org.uk> wrote: > On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:51:17 +0000, YTC#1 <b...@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> > wrote:
> >> I found mine the other day along with a set of vernier calipers and a > >> dead mouse.
> >Did the mouse smell ?
> <sigh>
> That should be "How did the mouse smell?"
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>On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:09:35 +0000, Eiron squeezed out the following:
>>Tosspot wrote: >>> Dave Emerson wrote: >>>> "Colin Irvine" <l...@bottom.of.home.page> wrote in message >>>> news:8ie9f5l1r56dd74d5s50mv2i6mc315qism@4ax.com... >>>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:09:05 +0000, The Older Gentleman squeezed out >>>>> the following:
>>>>>> Tonight, from No.1 son.
>>>>>> "Dad, did you ever use a slide rule?" >>>>>> 'Yes.'
>>>>>> "How did they work?"
>>>>>> 'Can't remember. >>>>> Logarithmic scales. log(xy) = log(x) + log(y). You can multiply >>>>> numbers by adding their lengths on a slide rule. >>>> or divide by subtracting.
>>> Where do you buy these log things?
>>If you know vectors or fluid mechanics you could probably curl one out.
>Divn't taak shite man.
Apologies for bad form - but was it the size of this cascade that put people off adding to it, or its direction?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
>Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974
Ditto that. Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second nature back then.
> The Older Gentleman wrote: > > Tonight, from No.1 son.
> > "Dad, did you ever use a slide rule?" > > 'Yes.'
> > "How did they work?"
> > 'Can't remember. I was crap at them anyway. All I could ever find was > > Pi. Why do you want to know?'
> > Turns out it's his uni computing course. OK, so does anyone know if > > there's a sort of Flash slide rule animation out there to play with? I > > couldn't find one.
> They occasionally turn up in junk shops. Get him a real one.
I still have the one that was handed down to me by my elder sister(s). [1] [2]
Available for loan on the UR.
Paul.
[1] Being the ridiculous hoarder that I am, this should come as no surprise to any of you. [2] And her stamp collection, bizarrely. Anyone want any 40 year old stamps ? ;)
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
>Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974
I reckon 76 for me.
I used to love the Sci Fi writers having a rocket ship set in the future where the navigator would get out his pocket slide rule to get them somewhere over thataway ->
Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@removegmail.com> wrote: > We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA > <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
> >Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974
> Ditto that. > Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second > nature back then.
Mine still gets used, it is a damn sight quicker than punching buttons on a calculator, even if the calculator actually had batteries with any charge left in them.
In message <hd59qk$dt...@news.albasani.net>, c...@NOSPAM.netunix.com writes
>Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@removegmail.com> wrote: >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >> drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA >> <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
>> >Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974
>> Ditto that. >> Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second >> nature back then.
>Mine still gets used, it is a damn sight quicker than punching buttons >on a calculator, even if the calculator actually had batteries with >any charge left in them.
You must be the only person in the world with a calculator without a solar panel
On Nov 8, 1:51 am, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA > <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
> >Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974
> Ditto that. > Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second nature back then.
I think we've done this before. I was reminiscing about still using Log tables at school ...
My Cambridge Universal calculator did % and SQRT but didn't have enough horsepower for Log calculations ;)
>On Nov 8, 1:51 am, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@REMOVEgmail.com> >wrote: >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >> drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA >> <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
>> >Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974
>> Ditto that. >> Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second >>nature back then.
>I think we've done this before. I was reminiscing about still using >Log tables at school ...
>My Cambridge Universal calculator did % and SQRT but didn't have >enough horsepower for Log calculations ;)
And you've been addicted to reverse polish ever since
In communiqué <5ea8c014-ae85-40bf-95f5-7578b65ed...@o10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, zymurgy <zymu...@technologist.com> cast forth these pearls of wisdom
>I still have the one that was handed down to me by my elder sister(s). >[1] [2]
>Available for loan on the UR.
>Paul.
>[1] Being the ridiculous hoarder that I am, this should come as no >surprise to any of you. >[2] And her stamp collection, bizarrely. Anyone want any 40 year old >stamps ? ;)
Still got mine from when I was the lad's age, together with a Stanley Gibbons whole catalogue 1963. Loads of stamps from Gold Coast and other pre-uhuru African states, plus Venezuala. Basically anywhere father was selling machetes to. One USA high denomination stamp in the collection was valued at £10 then. I really ought to get the whole lot valued, as the lad shows now interest. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pete Fisher at Home: Pe...@ps-fisher.demon.co.uk | | Voxan Roadster [ SPACE ! ] Yamaha WR250Z | | Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
geoff wrote: > In message > <8d2ac881-20c5-4bc5-80f8-4e0f866e6...@t2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, > zymurgy <zymu...@technologist.com> writes >> On Nov 8, 1:51 am, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@REMOVEgmail.com> >> wrote: >>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >>> drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA >>> <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
>>> >Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974
>>> Ditto that. >>> Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second >>> nature back then.
>> I think we've done this before. I was reminiscing about still using >> Log tables at school ...
>> My Cambridge Universal calculator did % and SQRT but didn't have >> enough horsepower for Log calculations ;)
> And you've been addicted to reverse polish ever since
Oh Dog. One of our engineers has some valve powered thing that uses that. Causes me much amusement watching people pick it up and try to use it.
For a long while I thought he was a pretentious wanker, then it dawned on me, that calculator had been lying around in the control room for over a year, and *nobody* had stolen it...
c...@NOSPAM.netunix.com wrote: > Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@removegmail.com> wrote: >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >> drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA >> <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
>>> Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974 >> Ditto that. >> Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second >> nature back then.
> Mine still gets used, it is a damn sight quicker than punching buttons > on a calculator, even if the calculator actually had batteries with > any charge left in them.
I found a calculator easier and quicker to use than a slide rule, especially if you start with the wrong end of the slide rule and have to try again. And there are some times when 3 significant figures isn't enough.
On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:56:48 +0000, geoff <ra...@kateda.org> wrote: >>I think we've done this before. I was reminiscing about still using >>Log tables at school ...
>>My Cambridge Universal calculator did % and SQRT but didn't have >>enough horsepower for Log calculations ;) >And you've been addicted to reverse polish ever since
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On Nov 8, 8:18 am, Pete Fisher <Pe...@ps-fisher.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In communiqué > <5ea8c014-ae85-40bf-95f5-7578b65ed...@o10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, > zymurgy <zymu...@technologist.com> cast forth
> >[2] And her stamp collection, bizarrely. Anyone want any 40 year old > >stamps ? ;)
> Still got mine from when I was the lad's age, together with a Stanley > Gibbons whole catalogue 1963. Loads of stamps from Gold Coast and other > pre-uhuru African states, plus Venezuala. Basically anywhere father was > selling machetes to. One USA high denomination stamp in the collection > was valued at £10 then. I really ought to get the whole lot valued, as > the lad shows now interest.
Yea, ditto. I've stamps from all over the world in it. One or 2 were valuable back then, so no idea how much they'll fetch now.
Seems stamp collecting has been stamped (ha!) out by the nintendo generation. What are these kids gonna hand down to their kids [1] ?
Paul.
[1] Apart from obsolete consoles and minor personality disorders ...
> In message > <8d2ac881-20c5-4bc5-80f8-4e0f866e6...@t2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, > zymurgy <zymu...@technologist.com> writes
> >On Nov 8, 1:51 am, Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@REMOVEgmail.com> > >wrote: > >> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the > >> drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA > >> <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
> >> >Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974
> >> Ditto that. > >> Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second > >>nature back then.
> >I think we've done this before. I was reminiscing about still using > >Log tables at school ...
> >My Cambridge Universal calculator did % and SQRT but didn't have > >enough horsepower for Log calculations ;)
> And you've been addicted to reverse polish ever since
Fnarr!
Actually, the RP Cambridge Scientific looks far more advanced than my humble one :
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff <ra...@kateda.org> saying something like:
>>My Cambridge Universal calculator did % and SQRT but didn't have >>enough horsepower for Log calculations ;)
>And you've been addicted to reverse polish ever since
Doesn't make any sense but it's got a lovely shine.
Eiron wrote: > c...@NOSPAM.netunix.com wrote: >> Grimly Curmudgeon <grimly4REM...@removegmail.com> wrote: >>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the >>> drugs began to take hold. I remember RichardA >>> <r.a...@FOSpammersblueyonder.co.uk> saying something like:
>>>> Last time I used a slide rule was back in 1974 >>> Ditto that. >>> Fucked if I've used one in thirty years or more, yet it was second >>> nature back then.
>> Mine still gets used, it is a damn sight quicker than punching buttons >> on a calculator, even if the calculator actually had batteries with >> any charge left in them.
> I found a calculator easier and quicker to use than a slide rule, > especially if you start with the wrong end of the slide rule and have to > try again. > And there are some times when 3 significant figures isn't enough.
I just use a Casio FX570ES, it does so much more than the older calculators... including unit conversion and scientific constants.
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