Too many jobs!

[hyperD]

Xog and Zeity,

can you two use slide rules ?

what on earth are they for ?

Milan.

Hey benesy, I can use a circular slide rule for calculating track vectors, airspeeds, climb/descents, flight time, distances, and fuel consumption calcs. I can even do this on my Navitimer.

[milanbenes]

u da man

have you met Malc ?

Milan.

[Churchill]

Not much use, it must be admitted, for adding.

Multiplying and dividing though, ace.

also

sin/cos
Logs
Roots

Depends what sort (and size) you have.

[hyperD]

u da man

have you met Malc ?

Milan.

He your sockie? He'll have to meet mine then.

[xoggoth]

Slide rules? Never figured them out.

I am starting to kick myself for the things I threw away. I had one of the first HP calculators about £170 in early 70s. Bet it would be a worth a bit by now.

[OwlHoot]

It's been obvious for years slide rules would become a rarity. So over the years I've snapped up any I see in charity shops and such like, and now have a box full.

[Freamon]

The Bob to Local exchange rate for IT workers is still about 8:1, from what I've seen. Although 1 local might actually get you more useful output than 8 bobs (sometimes they just don't do the needful).