Walter, Congratulations and keep up the great work. Cheers, Amin ... Slide ... (http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html) ... and ... and ... within ... ...
I had to check this WPTS. " SKAM " is a compliment to this jerk. I gave up on finding sphere in that mess. I will be laughing for some time about one bit of...
CALL FOR LISTINGS, THE OUGHTRED SOCIETY SWAP SHEET. We would like to invite you to place an ad in the swap sheet. Please look at the present swap sheet for the...
You might look for a copy of the book "Slide Rule" by C. L. Johnson. My copy is the fourth edition dated 1967. Some chapters contain instructions for certain...
This note was sent to The Oughtred Society, and should make for an interesting discussion through The ISRG : " Could any of your members tell me what was the...
I worked on the B-58 supersonic bomber in the last 1950s and much of that work was done with slide rules. This was after the Comet as I recall. Marion Moon...
If you're looking for the last one before computers, electronic, and even mechanical calculators, I don't have any idea. But when I was at Martin-Marietta in...
Gary- please list these items. Thanks. I have received nearly all of the items from Dr. Lerner's estate. I believe there will be just a few items to come in...
SR-71 at the skunk works....Saturn V and the moon launch ... From: sliderule@yahoogroups.com [mailto:sliderule@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of dfsmth45 Sent:...
G. Fonda-Bonardi, an IEEE Life member, writes in the IEEE Life Member Newsletter his experience in designing the tracking antenna for the AN/APG-37, an...
Greetings, There are a lot of things we do on this list which may not be obvious to newcomers, and some of us veterans need reminders from time to time, too....
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Would anyone have a Pickett SR that is used for parts? I'm reconditioning an N4-ES that I bought on ebaY and was in poor shape. There was a screw broken off in...
Hi Ray - sorry, I don't have any parts, but I also have a N4-ES with "personalization". Mine had initials scratched into the end braces in three different...
Hi Steve, Thanks for the info. I was more interested in filling-in the engravings with an enamel then smoothing out the surface. Do you or anyone know if there...
Hi all, I just acquired a mint Ricoh 151 and there is no date code to be found. Did Ricoh manufacture SRs without date codes and if so, can anyone tell me in...
... From Captain Acumath. Why a race horse would be named "Slide Rule" is not known to me. But, speculating, it may have had something to do with the fact that...
I'm just starting. I've run across an elementary problem that I'm unable to solve. If someone could give me the slide rule movements, I'd...
Captain Acumath wrote "McCreary soon became a jockey and never left racing. Conn rode in 8,802 races and produced 1,251 winners during a twenty-one-year career...
Dave, I think your problem is fairly straight forward but the "#13;#10" things are not at all clear. marion moon ... I'm unable to solve. If someone...
I have a Relay No. 150 with the date code H.K.-1. It may be closely related to the Ricoh No. 151. Earl K. Dille [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... The gibberish is a problem with my browser. I'll try again. A simple calculation (6x9x16/2x4) that I've now figured out by moving the index end for end,...
Does anyone have a Hemmi or Post cursor frame that they wish to part with? I got a 259D in the mail today from an ebaY auction win and the frame was broken. ...
Hi all; For Dave and his elementary problem; I do not know what's going on with the "10 and 13, but looking at your problem and using the powerful proportion...
Hello, I acquired a famous HP- 35 calculator (electronic sliderule) to sit nearby my Slide Rule collection. I would like to find a french version of the...
OK, if I get what you're doing right, This is my approach, involving no slide-shifting over 3 major numbers. It makes no difference if you multiply or divide...
I have just aquired a Royal 1091 duplex slide rule. I understand that these were made by Hope and all the images of 1091's on slide rule websites show rules...
There used to be an HP users mailing list, but I'm afraid it's no longer in business. The list organizer was a student at a northern midwest US university...