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The International Slide Rule Group "ISRG" is devoted to collectors of slide rules and associated mechanical calculating instruments.

You may contact the listowner at:

sliderule-owner@yahoogroups.com

To subscribe, send an email to:

sliderule-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

If you are serious about slide rule collecting, it is highly recommended that you consider joining The Oughtred Society.

For our members that are also on Facebook, be sure to join our group there: ISRG - Sliderule.

Brought to you by:

Cyril Catt - Andrew Davie - Gary Flom - Craig Kielhofer - Jerome Mc Kenna

Slide rules are THE ORIGINAL solar powered calculators. Try using one in the dark and you'll see I'm right, or not see as the case may be. This is your groupowners attempt at humor.

The picture above is courtesy of 'The Slide Rule Universe' and is the slide rule coin they have for sale. Check them out at the SRU site.

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Re: Fowlers Universal Calculator There is a tool known as a case-back opening knife used by watchmakers on cases made like that. It goes into the gap. Sent from my iPad Posted - Tue May 29, 2012 1:39 am	Paul Anderson wackyvorlon@... Send Email
Re: Fowlers Universal Calculator On mine, the bezel is quite thin while the glass is thick. I caught the nail of my index finger under the edge of the bezel, and pressed my thumb on the Posted - Tue May 29, 2012 1:39 am	Paul Anderson wackyvorlon@... Send Email
Apollo slide rule spotting I was looking through some old ARGYLE SWEATER cartoons (by Scott Hilburn), and spotted one of astronauts on the moon. The punch line is HOUSTON WE HAVE A WORD Posted - Tue May 29, 2012 1:34 am	MarkJ markjsr Offline Send Email
Re: Fowlers Universal Calculator ... Right, curiosity got the better of me. I have just had another look at my Fowler, in bright sunlight (yes, in East Yorkshire!) using a strong magnifying Posted - Tue May 29, 2012 1:33 am	dieswartdose Offline Send Email
Re: Fowlers Universal Calculator ... Paul, In reponse to your request and Cyril's summary of previous messages. I have a long scale calculator which has scales on both sides. Other owners have Posted - Tue May 29, 2012 1:31 am	dieswartdose Offline Send Email
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