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To: Neenny who wrote (60956)	12/3/2000 1:49:44 AM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

Why not ? I think life begins at 45.... I'll take a shot at it. I didn't use it personally, but I know for sure that the guys who had passed out of school 3 years before we joined the school, had used it. My cousin was one of them, he's about 5 years elder to me...but was 7 or 8 years ahead in his academic achievements...having got a string of double promotions in his primary school... Having said that, I must add that I wasn't brought up in the country @ the cutting edge of technology...so maybe in US the calculators came in much before his time too....but even then, the scientific calculators with sine cos funtions and log functions were pretty rare and very expensive.......even @ my time... So there, I know someone who used slide rules...I've even seen the slide rules myself... I used a t-square in my first year of engg drawing....although later got a mini drafter.... I worked on IBM 360 too with punch cards, volatile core memories and removable discs...80KB discs as big as a 30" TV....and just about as heavy. I remember I found it difficult to load it by myself and this cute guy @work always hung around to help me.... Whats more, I worked on 1401 machine as well. If anyone remembers, these machines had no memory whatsoever.... and hence no resident operating system...the operating system had to be loaded thru the punch cards... Not to be worried though...I'm just a harmless, grass eating type of dynasaur..... Now wheres my prize ?

To: Neenny who wrote (60956)	12/3/2000 8:08:52 AM
From: sunshadow	Respond to of 63513

Hi Neenny, "If any of us are old enough to remember that, do you think we will admit it???? " What if we are old and FORGETFUL :) Hmmm... "slide rules"... isn't that when we broke the rules and sometimes got to slide by anyway...

To: Neenny who wrote (60956)	12/3/2000 8:58:49 AM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 63513

You kids ..... everybody ain't young on this thread ..... Heck ...Paddy O'Slevin INVENTED the slide rule fer heavens sake .... but that was only after he'd pilfered the idea from ME ///// and ya'll talking bout T-Squares ... I used one, along with several Triangles, and other various of my drafting tools, to draw up the plans for the greenhouse/spa/sitting area I just built onto the house late this summer... AND btw, I used those same tools, and even the same OLD brain, to design/blueprint the house 21 years ago ..... Now, that abacus thingie ... we did learn how to use one in OurLadyOfVictoryCatholicSchool somewhere back in the late 40s (the year, not me40s) but I will confess to a lapse of mem about how to use one .... and I still have my ...... errrrrr ......still have some of my facilities ...... but am wee bit tired from putting 1300+ miles on my new Suburban this first week of it being owned by me ..... and I don't have ANY trouble admitting I'm old/elderly/cranky/cheap/eccentric/and didn't vote for GORE.. so this mess still belongs in the laps of Poet and Paddy ... Nemer ps ... on the way to Mass so I won't be back to accept any slings and/or arrows ......ggggg