Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong

[Jez Cunningham]

Of course I also had one of these
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/kingson_four-rule.html

And various slide rules, including a cardboard one my grandfather made
for me (which I still have).

Likewise a "starchart" he made for me.
Jez, with a bunch of crap in the loft.

On 28/08/2012, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah - I also had a DigiComp!
> But my first electronic calculator was a kit - built while I was a
> student of EE at University of Birmingham (UK) - this one:
> http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/advance_wireless_world.html
>
> Ancient Jez
>
> On 28/08/2012, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>From: Charles Geilfuss <charles.geilfuss@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Aug 28, 2012 6:37 AM
>>>To: Olympus Camera Discussion <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Subject: Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong
>>>
>>>  Just to extend this OT discussion a bit further, who remembers this
>>>clever little device:
>>>
>>>       http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm
>>>
>>>  I remember drooling over the ads for this thing in Scientific
>>> American back in the late 60's. I was tempted a few times but $125 was
>>> a *lot* of money.
>>>
>>
>>      And then there's Thacher’s Calculating Machine:
>>
>>      http://www.flickr.com/photos/thayerschool/3272197754/
>>
>>      I first saw one of these in a display case at the Lowell Observatory
>> in
>> Flagstaff.  It just so happens that it was there that Neil Armstrong made
>> his last public appearance at the dedication for a new observatory built
>> by
>> the Discovery Channel.
>>
>>      And then there was this mechanical wonder from the early 1960's:
>>
>>      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I
>>
>>      I had one of these.  It tended to get stuck when you operated the
>> slides, but it was still pretyy neat.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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