[Elecraft] FORTH - OT

[Frank Emens]

On 18 Apr 2005 at 12:37, Mike Morrow wrote:


> There's something more friendly about a pocket calculator, compared to 
?superwhamodyne handheld PC units.  But I think it's a dying market.  In my day, 
the 
>pocket scientific calculator was an essential tool of engineering professionals.  
>Today, even the most sphisticated units are primarily student tools.
 
> Mike / KK5F
> 
You guys are really making me feel like an OF. I used a contraption called a SLIDE 
RULE all through my college EE courses and continued using it several years later 
after going to work at NASA. when I got there, they were using a big, entirely 
mechanical beast from Friden for fancy calculations. There were some of the "big" 
IBM machines in the "Comp Lab", but they weren't for lowly engineers to use. Of 
course we did latch on to the HP scientific calculators when they came available. 

You guys have inspired  enough nostalgia on my part to order an HP 33 calculator. 

-- 
Frank Emens, W4HFU
femens at hiwaay.net
Huntsville, Alabama