[rollei_list] Re: Slipsticks and Geeks
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:34:07 -0700
Marc,
Ah! The Curta "Pepper Grinder". On my 1959 and 1961
trips to Porscheville, I was ordered to go to Liechtenstein
and pick up 5 Curtas for my engineer and rally navigator
friends on each visit. I still have one somewhere.
Jerry
Marc James Small wrote:
> At 10:51 PM 8/21/2006 -0700, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>
> > Too much of my life is in cardboard boxes in storage
> >garages. I probably need to get rich.
> > I have before me a Picket Model N803-ES log-log, dual
> >base, Speed Rule (tm), also says Synchro Scale on the other
> >end. Its in a nice leather case. I still use the thing. I
> >also have an old Mannheim type slide rule made by Fredrick
> >Post. This dates to about junior high school (now I think
> >called middle school), a time I was a whiz at math. I can't
> >add a column of figures now. I keep hoping someday someone
> >will develop a pill that will bring it all back.
> > If people really cared about language they would fall
> >over laughing.
>
> A Picket is a nice slide rule, Richard, but my Dad's K&E Log-Log Decitrig
> is at the other side of the room from me, complete with its geek case and
> IB. It got Dad through college and me through high school and college and
> grad school, back in the era when we regarded "Texas Instruments" as Tommy
> Guns.
>
> The worst problem I have with my slide rule is that I can't figure out
> where to put in fresh batteries ...
>
> Oh, for a Curta!
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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