Antique Technology
I bought a slide rule on eBay today.
Sometimes I think I was born 10-15 years too late; I have a strange affinity with 1960s and 1970s technology.
I bought a slide rule on eBay today.
Sometimes I think I was born 10-15 years too late; I have a strange affinity with 1960s and 1970s technology.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
If you *had* have been born 10-15 years earlier, you’d know that there were K&E slide rules, and there were the pretenders.
September 30th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
I saw some K&E ones on eBay as well, but they were more expensive. Plus, I found an online scan of the instruction manual for the Pickett.
September 30th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
I’ve got two slide rules my dad gave me when I was a kid. They haven’t lost their cool factor in 25+ years…
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:38 am
Sextants are cool too. Not only are they useful, they look nice too.
October 4th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
the slide rule is 60s and 70s technology?!?
October 4th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
The 60s and 70s were the last decades where they were really popular and widely available. Cheap pocket calculators killed their market in the 70s.