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Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong

Subject: Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:13:32 -0400
My grandfather the geophysicist was an avid user of a "slipstick," but I never 
sussed it out. Did buy and sell them on eBay for a while 10 or 15 years ago. 
Found a few that had some real value, much to my surprise.

--Bob


On Aug 26, 2012, at 11:04 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:

> I may have owned a slide rule once.  I could do multiplication and
> division with it, but I only trusted it if I already knew the answer. 
> Advanced users told me that feeling never really went away. 

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