Happy New Year
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calculator. There is a list with brief description of each item. The duration of Clay's library displays ranges from 3 months to 2 years. My interest in slide rules began in high school when I had a few cheap models. In my senior year, sixty-one years ago, my mother managed to find about $23 for my Christmas gift, a Pickett Model 4 magnesium slide rule. I don't know how long she put aside money for this, for it was a very expensive gift for our family. It served me well for my upcoming college education and it allowed me to do some real engineering at Convair in the summer of 1957. I spent a few weeks calculating several thousand pot settings for some analog computer runs for collecting data on climb-out tables and graphs for pilot planning on the B-58 bomber. I still have the Model 4 and it is showing a lot of wear and corrosion but is still workable. Space Museum. There will be a slide rule talk, displays, and auction. Dick Rose of Vintage Instruments will be there with lots of slide rule bargains. Oughtred Society members and non-members are invited to attend. Cost is only $35. Details and registration at www.oughtred.org Las Vegas, meeting co-hosts.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- IEEE Micro
دوره 20 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999