[bcowen]

And I was using a slide rule in university before the first calculator went on sale.


JC

You were lucky. We only had our fingers.

 

[Ripper2860]

And Bill is missing 2 fingers on one hand and and 3 on the other. Thankfully all 10 toes were still intact.

 

[Roy G. Biv]

In light of the lack of posts regarding the TX-NC BBQ feud, I'm seriously impressed that many of you have chosen to fill the void with meaningful and heart-warming posts regarding slide-rules and calculators. Huzzah!

As everyone knows, May 16 is national bbq day https://dayfinders.com/national-bbq-day/ which is a made-up holiday but should be celebrated nonetheless.

 

[bcowen]

And Bill is missing 2 fingers on one hand and and 3 on the other. Thankfully all 10 toes were still intact.

Well, actually they weren't. Most of them were lost to frostbite from our shoeless 5 mile** walk to school in the snow.

** It may have been 6 or 7 miles, but I only had 5 fingers available to count with.

 

[macdonjh]

And Bill is missing 2 fingers on one hand and and 3 on the other. Thankfully all 10 toes were still intact.

Damn subtraction hurts...

 

[filthy mechanical]

In light of the lack of posts regarding the TX-NC BBQ feud, I'm seriously impressed that many of you have chosen to fill the void with meaningful and heart-warming posts regarding slide-rules and calculators. Huzzah!

As everyone knows, May 16 is national bbq day https://dayfinders.com/national-bbq-day/ which is a made-up holiday but should be celebrated nonetheless.

So pork with a dry rub and thin tomato based sauce, or pork with a vinegar mixture and ketchup based sauce, or mustard based sauce, or molasses based cooked over hickory, or brisket over pecan, or chopped beef/pork with hot sauce, or a mayonnaise-vinegar sauce?

 

[Ripper2860]

He says frostbite, but I suspect it was really NC pork BBQ poisoning.

 

[JamminVMI]

IMO should include a cheap pair of sunglasses. also no mention of the internal design or pics, so likely a pile of 5532 op-amps and bad-sounding cheap electrolytic caps.

The only time I pull out my cheap sunglasses is when ZZ Top also shows up…

 

[JamminVMI]

And Bill is missing 2 fingers on one hand and and 3 on the other. Thankfully all 10 toes were still intact.

But he’s extremely proficient at Base 5!

 

[macdonjh]

My Dad, a former slide rule warrior in his college days, taught me at least basic multiplication and division with a slide rule. I still have the plastic one he bought me when I was a kid.

When I went off to college I begged and pleaded with my parents to replace the little Casio "scientific" calculator I used in high school with an HP 11C. They finally relented and allowed me to spend the outrageous sum of $40 for the calculator. How quaint is that these days? $40? Anyway, I was nearly instantly addicted to RPN and four registers instead of a single value memory. Such luxury.

The next year I sold my 11C and splurged for a 15C ($70!) because of the matrix functions. They were really useful in statics and dynamics classes. Finally, in my junior year, jealous of the HP-48 owner, I sold my 15C and bought that 42S ($200!!) I posted earlier today. I even programmed it a bit. Like I had a scare a few years ago when I dropped it and it stopped working. I was able to find a man who repaired HP calculators. He was having issues in his personal life, but finally fixed my calculator and then promptly retired. I am super-extra careful with it now.

A few years ago I missed my 15C so I started stalking eBay and got an original, not a reissue, in decent condition, but I had to pay $200 for it. At least they were 201x dollars, not 1998 dollars. It's amazing how slow it is.

When my daughter was in high school I bought her an HP-xx, I can't remember the model, but @ghfiii posted a photo of it a bit earlier. It was so complicated neither of us figured out how to use it. I miss classic HP calculators. To me, the pinnacle of purpose-built devices of their kind. I, like @AudioGal, like the little tactile "snap" of the keys. Excellent ergonomic touch. For that reason alone I don't have an emulator on my phone.

 

[Paladin79]

And I was using a slide rule in university before the first calculator went on sale.


JC

As was I

 

[ghfiii]

Hate to derail the HP calculator thread, but excellent live stream today, and amazing news. They found Freya S metal...probably another run YAY for the S yippeeee

but that's just me

Griff

 

[filthy mechanical]

 

[Roy G. Biv]

So pork with a dry rub and thin tomato based sauce, or pork with a vinegar mixture and ketchup based sauce, or mustard based sauce, or molasses based cooked over hickory, or brisket over pecan, or chopped beef/pork with hot sauce, or a mayonnaise-vinegar sauce?

In the spirit of National BBQ Day, yes to all the above.

 

[StimpyWan]

And Bill is missing 2 fingers on one hand and and 3 on the other. Thankfully all 10 toes were still intact.

But, he could never count that high, so the toes did no good.