Slide rules -

[Bob Wier]

>        Even use the E6B with the Microsoft Flight Sim going cross country
>for practice!  It's amazing how close you can come using DR navigation.
>It's also fun to crank in winds and try to compensate using the plotter side!
>73,
>Sandy W5TVW

When I was teaching at the college of engineering in a school in
Arizona (circa 1990) they phased out the required slide rule undergrad
course in favor of a electronic calculator course. There was one of those
6' instructional slide rules made out of plywood which appeared in a
surplus sale by the university, which I bought for $2. I toted it
around for a number of years, but finally discarded it a couple of
cross-country moves ago.

It made a dandy conversation piece laid up against the corner of the
shack, though!

              Bob Wier
     mailto:wier at calcite.rocky.edu
   8:51 PM Friday, March 19, 1999
        Unix/Internet Administrator
   Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
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