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"Simulated Pickett N4-ES Slide Rule". (For all you egg heads.)
AntiQuark ^ | Feb 6, 2005 | Derek

Posted on 01/26/2013 9:50:45 AM PST by Islander7

Following up on my original post, I've scanned and virtualized my Pickett N4-ES Vector Type LOG LOG DUAL BASE SPEED RULE. That's the most complicated rule that Picket produced. It has 34 scales, which is good, because in the world of slide rule collecting, bigger is better. ().

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41 posted on 01/26/2013 9:38:36 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Islander7

Somewhere in the house is a small, simple slide rule: it is round.

I do not know the manufacturer’s name, but it belonged to my dad, who was a nuclear engineer. He had a collection at one time, but I don’t what he did with them.


42 posted on 01/26/2013 9:45:44 PM PST by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Boy, talk about dull. Saturday night, 11 PM, and I’m reading a thread about slide rules. I’ve got a couple around here somewhere... and there is my Dietzgen 1734 - on my dresser. Still slick after 45 years. Down the hall to the computer “lab” and there’s it’s replacement, an HP 67. I am not going to fire up the 8088 or 286.


43 posted on 01/26/2013 11:01:19 PM PST by kitchen (Due to the increased price of ammo, do not expect a warning shot.)
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To: Islander7

Sad to say I used one sort of like this one (K-E Decitrig).


44 posted on 01/26/2013 11:03:24 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Soylent Green is Boomers)
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To: Islander7; All
This is a fully functional, virtual slide rule, the sort
used to land Neil and Buzz on the moon... Have fun!!
hmmm....I rather use an Curta, (somewhat easier to use)...

http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm

45 posted on 01/26/2013 11:11:29 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: ken5050
I had a K&E log-log-decitrig..got pretty good at using it, too..
had one...lost in tech. drafting school....
bought ti-58/rom chip (what a piece of cr@p)/
then got hp-33/11/15/28/48sx/49g/hp-50g.

46 posted on 01/26/2013 11:20:53 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: libstripper
..but do have a Curta Type II calculator in its original box with original instructions
that I bought in early 1970 to do estate and tax work. In 1971 the first of theelec-
tronic calculators came out, making my Curta instantly obsolete, so I decided to
keep it as a curio that might someday be very valuable. Right now it’s worth about
$1,300 vs. the original price of about $150.00.
WOW! ..You have one...*thumbs up*...
think of all the Techie doomsday guys out there
would give for it...worthy of black/gun smithing skills.

47 posted on 01/26/2013 11:31:07 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bfl - I need to send that to a Greek friend.


48 posted on 01/26/2013 11:36:30 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SatinDoll
probably a Circular Calculator that came w/ a design manual,
Effects of Nuclear Blast. real handy.

49 posted on 01/26/2013 11:39:45 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: Professional Engineer; El Gato

Things that make you go Hmmm

Regards

alafa6 ;>}


50 posted on 01/26/2013 11:43:22 PM PST by alfa6
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To: SunkenCiv

I'm afraid this is the only slide rule I'm familiar with, but as with the types here, it can be faster than a calculator if one knows how to use it properly.

51 posted on 01/27/2013 12:18:15 AM PST by GATOR NAVY
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To: Islander7
I still have my two slide rules: Back in my day, aka Prehistory, it was Post (or K&E) for quality Architectural/Engineering equipment. From Slide Rules to: Scales, Triangles, French Curves, Mechanical Pencils, Compass-Inking Sets, Templates, etc. As I recall Pickett brand 'stuff' [technical term ;-)] came out later.

It's kind of funny now but the guys (ewwww, how 'sexist') were either Post, or K&E -- like Chevy vs Ford. I turned out to be 'Post'.

52 posted on 01/27/2013 4:23:19 AM PST by Condor51 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I LOVE Wilson Pickett!

As for slide rules...I know it was what was used to land on the moon, although I was a washout in math, and never learned to use one.

Being a musician, I teach my students that Mozart wrote out the orchestral scores of his symphonies without any erasures or strike-outs, WITHOUT A COMPUTER!

They have a hard time wrapping their heads around that. LOL.


53 posted on 01/27/2013 4:44:20 AM PST by left that other site (Worry is the darkroom that developes negatives.)
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To: Islander7

I have several slide rules. A Harvard PhD in physics I once worked with kept one of his on top of his computer monitor for “backup”. Before we had individual computers, he kept it on top of his terminal. :)

But while slide rules were used in the design of the equipment used to put men on the moon, computers were used for the guidance calculations, among other “real time” thing, as well as design simulations. IBM 360, IIRC, which was a room sized computer, if you included the disk drives, printer, control terminal, etc. But the actual CPU was more the size of the Presidential desk.


54 posted on 01/27/2013 9:41:05 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: libstripper
Right now it’s worth about $1,300 vs. the original price of about $150.00.

Meaning it has more than kept up with inflation. $150 in '71 dollars would be about $850, today.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

55 posted on 01/27/2013 9:48:59 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Cool use of graphics for your reply. I also have a 1966 (that’s right, 1966) Smith-Corona electric portable typewriter that still mostly works. I’ve thought about the possibility of taking the Curta on a flight but decided against it because it looks a lot too much like some kind of a sophisticated terrorist grenade. In fact, if I offered to operate it to show what it actually was, I’d probably have five ot six security personnel jump me and call the bomb squad.


56 posted on 01/27/2013 10:11:55 AM PST by libstripper
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I’ve thought about the possibility of taking the Curta on a flight but decided against
it because it looks a lot too much like some kind of a sophisticated terrorist grenade.
In fact, if I offered to operate it to show what it actually was, I’d probably have five
of six security personnel jump me and call the bomb squad.
LOL!..don't that; there's nothing more the D(nc)HSS troopers would love...
Headlines: "Vast Right Winger " from FreeRepublic planned attack(s) on..."

57 posted on 01/28/2013 8:09:57 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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To: skinkinthegrass

Some people do in fact call Curta the Math Grenade. I have a mint 2nd model. Have you seen what they sell for on eBay these days?


58 posted on 01/29/2013 10:43:57 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: TexasRepublic
Have you seen what they sell for on eBay these days?
..saw US$1,150.00+...
more than 10X cost...but worth it.

59 posted on 01/29/2013 10:56:59 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,spend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Bozo man can :-)
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