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Great about the Wiley book/legacy. Second, Slide rules are simple:
1. "If you don't slide, you rule." (with Jesus' Righteousness)
"If you slide, rule your opponent anti-Christian." (Trumps Rule)
posted by
NocrossJustchristmas
on October 2, 2016 at 7:25 PM
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I thought I knew the rules for the slide rule, but somehow, my answers rarely came out correct.
posted by
Ciel
on October 2, 2016 at 11:49 AM
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The calculator saved my life I do believe. LOl...
Yes, it is a great book and I am totally in love with the "In laws" that I never met.I loved that story he wrote about the little boy and the duck racing each other up and down the water way.
posted by
Kabu
on October 2, 2016 at 9:34 AM
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Happy to be in the internet age.But life was much simpler to everyone, even the kids.
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on October 2, 2016 at 8:58 AM
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TAPS
Oh boy, are you bringing back memories today! I did learn to use the slide rule, but used it less and less, the more I moved away from areas of enquiry that required a 'quantitave' approach towards more 'theoretical' ones...I sometimes think I should have stayed wit the quantitative stuff - counting things is so much easier than thinking about them... 
posted by
Nautikos
on October 2, 2016 at 8:51 AM
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I have at times wondered about the slide rule, but never actually
even played with one. I thought they were for engineers and architects. I liked the compass, needle on one side, pencil on the other, for making circles and artful patterns.
posted by
Pat_B
on October 2, 2016 at 6:19 AM
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I guess eventually we were able to estimate a foot or a yard. I could gage a 1lb of apples in my hand. I suppose if there were no computers as such we would grow used to doing things in a different way.
posted by
C_C_T
on October 2, 2016 at 6:04 AM
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I am so thankful for the computer as well. Even though I can remember life without it, I could not go back to that easily.
One time, Josh Gabber said to my father, "They never let us use calculators in school."
Dad replied, "They weren't invented yet."
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 2, 2016 at 5:01 AM
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