slipsticks Re: [BARC-List] Catalogs, etc.

[William Ricker]

Bill,

>   A good complement  for the slide rule 
> (Post Versalog) on my belt.  Even years later I  preferred a slide rule over 
> a calculator.  You could see the answer  converging and you were never way off 
> due to a keying error.

Better than that, having to track the exponents for yourself, you had an expectation of the approximate answer for each step.

And with the old EE tricks, it's still faster for pythagorean or polar/rect tranform!  

I don't spend enough time with my sliderules OR old calculators anymore :-)

73,

Bill n1vux


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