Originally Posted by Digital Gee
How many of you had one of these? Or lusted after one? I paid $75 for my first calculator, and it looked pretty much like this one:
Yeah, and it would eat $2.00 worth of batteries per hour. We've come a long way.
I've still got the slide rule (and leather tooled case) my Grandfather gave me. I pull it out occasionally to scare the teenagers.
It's quite remarkable to remember that we got to the Moon with a room full of "A" type personalities estimating to the least number of significant digits for the entire trip.
Slip stick