[SI-LIST] Re: Slide Rules. (Was Re: We ought to address mutua l SI-EMI issues in this forum)

Yes, and it's *especially* authentic because the mailer
screwed up Fred's post, folded lines that shouldn't be folded,
etc. :-) I think that the shar utility was generally
available by then, but it was always a hassle getting
people to use it...

I found the original (which had to be reposted because
the author's mailer screwed it up, I kid you not), on
Google Groups:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1991Aug2.121510.23088%40ssd.kodak.com&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain

I converted it into a PDF, if people want me to I
can make it available.

Also, I found the postscript (and PDF, as well as TIFF) for
a circular slide rule here:

http://icarus.physics.montana.edu/math/csr.html

That one looks to be a bunch more useful than the
old Usenet liner version.

When I was in high school, a slide rule was mandatory,
just like they make students get TI83s today. At
the beginning of the school year, our teacher would
always do a group order of a couple of standard models
for kids that didn't have one yet, and most of us got
these cool plastic circular models with a rectangular
base that fit just right in your pocket protector.
I'm sure my mother threw it away at some point :-(

--Bob



On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 04:16:03PM -0500, Dunbar, Tony wrote:
> 
> Well, you know this is authentic from the e-mail address line below the
> first --clip here-- line. I remember when actually addressing an e-mail to
> someone correctly, as in this example, involved lots of convoluted relaying
> through educational establishments and lots of "!" characters, referred to
> as 'bangs'.
> 
> If you tell that to the kids of today, they wouldn't believe you.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Schimmel Fred-MGI2080 [mailto:fschimmel@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 2:45 PM
> To: 'haedge@xxxxxxxxxxxx'; si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SI-LIST] Re: Slide Rules. (Was Re: We ought to address mutua l
> SI-EMI issues in this forum)
> 
> 
> 
> Well, if you need a slide rule, and have a postscript printer, 
> I clipped this one from Usenet about 11 years ago.
> 
> Clip between the clip *here lines* and file as slide_rule.ps
> 
> It also demonstrates the programming language hidden inside 
> Postscript.
> 
> Fred Schimmel
> 
> Motorola     
> Broadband Communications Sector
> Digital Consumer Gateways
> 
> ------->8  *clip here*  8<----------------
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-2.1
> %From ut-emx!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ispd-newsserver!kinsman Fri Aug  2 10:25:58
> CDT 1991
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