Do I have the only 6" Pickett Model 600 Log Log slide rule left in existence?
Just curious.
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Do I have the only 6" Pickett Model 600 Log Log slide rule left in existence?
Just curious.
Maybe.
But I might have the only 13" Teledyne Post No. 1414 log log slide rule.
I have one. The marking on it is N600-T. I have the leather case too.
I have one. If only I could remember how to use it.
What are you discussing? Never heard of it.
Um, OK. ;)
Pickett N803 Synchro-Scale for me, also with a leather case and belt clip. Was it the height of cool or nerdliness to have one hanging from your belt?
I also have a pre WWII Gibson circular Midget (answer good to 1 in 30,000, the manual says so!) that I picked up for 50 cents a few decades back. I'm afraid to us it, the plastic fingers look like they're made of acetate or something like it and look pretty brittle.
-Tom
Well, maybe that means I have the only Pickett Model 120 Microline (with case), but somehow I doubt it...:cool:
I had one years ago. I think I tossed it when I bought my first TI calculator.
Ok, so it functions much like a calculator. Some of the old timers in here might have started with an abacus.
Do they still make addiators? Bought one for an accounting class.
I still have two
A ten in. Post and a 6in. circular.
I haven't used either one in years. It might be fun to try and "teach" the grandkids some rainy afternoon.
I have a Post. When I was in college, almost everyone had a Post. We'd often get together to work out homework assignments and when it came time to pick up your slide rule, we couldn't tell which belonged to who. And that was important because each person adjusted their rule to their liking. Some liked them tight and some loose.
So I had my initials engraved on the metal holding it together. I still have mine and could probably use it, but not with the ease I had when in college. Watching a bunch of engineering students work their rules during a test was interesting.
Mike
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Here's a pic of my Curta "pepper mill" calculator circa mid 50's that belonged to my dad. It replaced his slide rule. I was forbidden to even touch it when I was a kid.
I wish I knew what happened to mine.