My teasing you about making calculations for Collins Radio/Rockwell got me to thinking while waiting for the basketball tournament to begin.
Did you you begin your career using slide rules to make engineering calculations in school or at work? The advent of the hand-held calculator must have been a God-send for your work....or did engineers back in the day have a hard time trusting them if they grew up using slide rules?
One of my favorite movies is Apollo 13, and I always marvel at the scenes in the control room when engineers are busy making all kinds of critical calculations with slide rules.
I never had to learn how to use one. Kind of for fun, Dad bought our first hand-held calculator in the early 1970s. It was called a "Bowmar Brain", and I think he bought it from Sears. I remember that it cost $80, and all it did was the basic consumer math type calculations....addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and percentages. Nothing fancier than that. I remember taking it to school to show my high school teacher, and she said, "That's nice, but you can leave it in your locker."
I was just curious what you were using at the beginning of your career.
Did you you begin your career using slide rules to make engineering calculations in school or at work? The advent of the hand-held calculator must have been a God-send for your work....or did engineers back in the day have a hard time trusting them if they grew up using slide rules?
One of my favorite movies is Apollo 13, and I always marvel at the scenes in the control room when engineers are busy making all kinds of critical calculations with slide rules.
I never had to learn how to use one. Kind of for fun, Dad bought our first hand-held calculator in the early 1970s. It was called a "Bowmar Brain", and I think he bought it from Sears. I remember that it cost $80, and all it did was the basic consumer math type calculations....addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and percentages. Nothing fancier than that. I remember taking it to school to show my high school teacher, and she said, "That's nice, but you can leave it in your locker."
I was just curious what you were using at the beginning of your career.
