[plug] What was your first computer?

[Mike]

At 02:38 PM 18/10/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>The cheap ones just did straight multiplication, from memory, and the
>Fraber Castell slide rules had a log scale, and, I think, a geometric
>(angles) scale, or something. 'Twas a long time ago, in a galaxy far
>away...

All the slide rules I've seen had a log scale - thats *how* they
did multiplication/division, without a log scale you can only
do addition/subtraction and I've never seem one like that ever,

Well - other then an abacus,

rgds

Mike


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>I am not sure, but, underneath the piles of ancient treasures, I may still
>have a cheap slide rule. The Faber Castell slide rules were too expensive
>for a single person to keep. they got passed down. We had access to them,
>and, were allowed to use them, but, they were heirlooms.
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>Bret Busby
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