[COFF] Fwd: Old and Tradition was [TUHS] V9 shell

[John P. Linderman]

My uncle had a cylindrical sliderule. It had about a dozen "rules" that
rotated around the central cylinder, with different gratings on the
opposite side of each rule. And the central cylinder had at least a dozen,
probably 20 or more, gratings. That yielded hundreds of combinations. I
wish he had bequeathed it to me. I have no idea what became of it.

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 7:18 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> > What brand was your grandfather's sliderule?
>
> Mine was an Arista, and had it right through school; have no idea where it
> is now.  I also had a circular slide rule, which was fascinating.
>
> Trivia: slide rules were banned for exams (and no calculators in those
> days), but log tables were OK; come some important exam, some idiot of a
> teacher forgot to specify that log tables were allowed so they were
> forbidden.  I merely worked the problems through right down to the long
> division, and left them there with a note saying that we were supposed to
> use log tables; I passed...
>
> -- Dave
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