Slide rules -

[Barry A. Watzman]

At least Georgia Tech [which I almost attended] was sitting right in the middle of downtown Atlanta [where I later worked and lived for four years when I went to graduate school at Emory].  RPI was in Troy, NY, not exactly a booming metropolis.


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From:  K4KGW [SMTP:k4kgw at MINDSPRING.COM]
Sent:  Saturday, March 20, 1999 4:13 AM
To:  HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
Subject:  Re: Slide rules -

Hi Barry et al,

Ah--I said that at the time "we believed" this to be so...I didn't say it really did!  Anyway, then there were very few girls on the GA Tech campus, a situation that has improved only a little since then, I am told.

Judging from current observations, it would appear that girls haven't changed all that much, at least in respect to their attraction (or
lack thereof) to us engineering types.  Someone explained the phenomenon in one of the comments posted on the slide rule subject
yesterday--engineers are not good dating material...just excellent marriage material, and that sounds pretty close to the mark.

And you're right--when I was a boy, all girls were strange, too.  They still are...

73,

Keith

"Barry A. Watzman" wrote:

> >re: "the presence of the slide rule at one's side impressed girls mightily"
>
> Since slide rules have not changed, girls must have changed a LOT.
>
> I was always uncomfortable going out with strange girls.  Problem was, if you were a boy, then by definition, all girls were strange.
>
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> From:  Keith Rowland [SMTP:k4kgw at MINDSPRING.COM]
> Sent:  Friday, March 19, 1999 12:09 PM
> To:  HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Subject:  Re: Slide rules -
>
> Hi Bill, et al:
>
> My E6B has lived in my Comanche 260B for 32 years, and lived in an assortment
> of aircraft prior to that, beginning with a C-54 in 1949 (the C-54 belonged to
> the Air Force--the 260B is ours : ).)  I also still have and use two Pickett
> engineering slide rules, one large and one small.  The large one I used to
> carry dangling from my belt, like all the other engineering hopefuls at Georgia
> Tech in those days.  As has been said, no batteries required, plus we believed
> at the time that the presence of the slide rule at one's side impressed girls
> mightily.
>
> Keith
>
> Bill Coleman AA4LR wrote:
>
> > On 3/18/99 10:01 PM, Bill Watson NV4T at Nv4t at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > >I remember showing my then teenage son a sliderule and his comment that it
> > >was
> > >neat and he wondered who could have been clever enough to invent it.  The
> > >best
> > >part-it's portable and no batteries needed!
> >
> > Slide rules may be pretty much dead in the engineering sector, but they
> > are still in use daily by pilots. For those pilots whose aircraft do not
> > have a flight management system (FMS), the old E6-B flight computer is
> > indispensible. Sure, there are electronic equivalents, but as Bill said,
> > the batteries never wear out.
> >
> > Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at radio.org
> > Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> >             -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
> >
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