Search the web
Sign In
New User? Sign Up
slideruleforum · Slide Rule Forum - Forum for the utilitarian beauty of the slide rule
? Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo!

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...
Want your group to be featured on the Yahoo! Groups website? Add a group photo to Flickr.

Best of Y! Groups

   Check them out and nominate your group.
Having problems with message search? Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.

Messages

  Messages Help
Advanced
Messages 293 - 323 of 559   Oldest  |  < Older  |  Newer >  |  Newest
Messages: Simplify | Expand   (Group by Topic) Author Sort by Date ^
293
I recently received a slide rule and I have never used one before. I have asked several people but none know how to use it. It is a Pickett Microline 120 if ...
mathletemkl
Offline Send Email
Mar 4, 2002
10:28 pm
294
Welcome to the club!! Be sure to check out Ron Manley's site at <a href=http://www.sliderules.clara.net target=new>http://www.sliderules.clara.net</a> for...
slidegeek
Offline Send Email
Mar 4, 2002
10:55 pm
295
Thanks for the welcome. However, I have been operation sliderules since 1952 and had one hour a day for four school years plus an additional hour a day for ...
raykornele
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
1:28 am
296
Sounds like a tremendous background. I didn't know that the Pythagorean triangles could be done on a rule. Tell us more.<br>The basic tips were more directed...
slidegeek
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
2:45 am
297
At the risk of sounding negative, I am dreading our eventual migration to Yahoo Groups. Several Clubs I was already a member of have migrated and it is very...
slidegeek
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
3:48 am
298
There are three settings that can be used for Pythagorean solutions.<br><br>I will use a 3, 5, 5 triangle for demonstration.<br><br>You use the D (or DF) and B...
raykornele
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
4:14 am
299
Inthe previous message, the line<br><br>I will use a 3, 5, 5 triangle for demonstration.<br><br>should read<br><br>I will use a 3, 4, 5 triangle for...
raykornele
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
4:16 am
300
I know what you mean. Yahoo groups can be frustrating with the ads and slowness. In answer to your last question, I haven't been able to post or read on Yahoo ...
gkarusa
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
5:21 am
301
Greetings:<br><br>(1) You can avoid the ads on Yahoo Groups by getting the digest version of the mailing list.<br><br>(2) I find this version to be frustrating...
fkiesche3
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
12:40 pm
302
Greetings:<br><br>It's been a slow several months on the collecting front. I picked up a Pickett Model 600-ES for my briefcase/backpack/shoulder bag (I switch ...
godel2escher2bach
godel2escher...
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
3:43 pm
303
I should be getting an N3 ES any day now. Sphere had some, but I think they are now sold out on them. I sure wish I could find another Shanhai Flying Fish....
slidegeek
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2002
4:02 pm
304
Well gang, we have been migrated to Yahoo Groups. This will take some adjustment, but we can make it work. I invite all members to post regularly and often....
slidegeek
Offline
Mar 8, 2002
5:13 pm
305
Greetings: FYI, I've gotten notification on several of the astronomy-related lists that I subscribe to that Yahoo! will be doing some server swaps this...
godel2escher2bach
godel2escher...
Offline
Mar 13, 2002
2:06 pm
306
... make ... Thanks for the welcome!...
izityet
Offline
Mar 14, 2002
9:16 pm
307
I just purchased my first Slide Rule, a Pickett 120T off of e-bay. I am in the process of getting a Pickett 160C-T. I have not used a Slide Rule in almost 30...
LMS264T
Offline Send Email
Mar 16, 2002
1:18 am
308
Welcome to all who have joined! Please feel free to leave messages, ask questions, tell us about your sliderules, start an argument, whatever it takes to get...
slidegeek
Offline
Mar 21, 2002
8:57 pm
309
I look in from time to time. For a while after the change I couldn't access this site (possibly because I had upgraded my firewall). Have other members had...
ronaldmanley
Offline
Apr 27, 2002
10:00 am
310
Hi Ron and all, I've noticed there hasn't been much traffic either, in fact for about a month. I hadn't thought of the problem of being able to access the ...
gkarusa
Offline
Apr 27, 2002
6:02 pm
311
Miles One thing which has interested me lately is some of the finer points of slide rule design. Two examples. I was recently given a very complex "black body...
ronaldmanley
Offline
Apr 28, 2002
12:03 pm
312
Ron, I don't have too many in the way of specialty or too unusual of designs and layouts. Other than the Mannheim, which of course you need to switch the...
gkarusa
Offline
Apr 29, 2002
5:01 am
313
Miles I helped a non-profit organisation with a web site and a member gave me the black-body rule. It is about 18" long by 3 1/2" wide and weights a ton. I...
ronaldmanley
Offline
Apr 29, 2002
4:52 pm
314
Glad to see that we have several new members. Please be sure to introduce yourselves and tell us about your slide rules. Thanks to Ronald Manley for posing...
slidegeek
Offline
Apr 29, 2002
4:57 pm
316
Ron, That was a nice gift of them to give you for the help with the web site. I do recall the two that you mentioned by Thornton that sold on eBay earlier...
gkarusa
Offline
Apr 30, 2002
2:34 am
317
Mile Since you were bidding on a black body rule does that mean you understand about the high level physics involved? If so, I'd be gtrateful if you could have...
ronaldmanley
Offline
May 1, 2002
7:39 am
318
Ron, I do have to admit, my knowledge in the high level physics involved with the black body rule is rather limited. I am in Meteorology actually. We did...
gkarusa
Offline
May 2, 2002
2:20 am
319
Ron, I do have to admit, my knowledge in the high level physics involved with the black body rule is rather limited. I am in Meteorology actually. We did...
gkarusa
Offline
May 2, 2002
2:20 am
320
Anybody have any idea where I can buy a slide rule in the UK? Thanks, Bob...
bobbrownuk
Offline Send Email
May 3, 2002
10:42 am
321
Bob What type of rule do want? I'm not a dealer but I do have a few duplicates. I also know other places where you can buy rules. You can contact me directly...
ronaldmanley
Offline
May 3, 2002
10:54 am
322
... Hmmm. I don't know how many little shops are still around that deal in scientific collectibles. I wonder how reasonable prices tend to be on eBay. -- Mark...
Mark Carroll
mark_tb_carroll
Offline Send Email
May 3, 2002
12:42 pm
323
Anybody have any idea where I can buy a slide rule in France? Thanks, I've got four - Pickett N902-T with leather case - Graphoplex 640 With plastic grey and...
marcpujo
Offline Send Email
May 4, 2002
5:50 pm
Messages 293 - 323 of 559   Oldest  |  < Older  |  Newer >  |  Newest
Advanced
Add to My Yahoo!      XML What's This?

Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Guidelines - Help