From: Jon Keeble ([email protected])
Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 - 14:36:54 PST
Slide Rule? Pah! When _we_ were kids there were no battery chargers for sliderules...
What about mental arithmetic?
0.2 x 0.5" and 40 connections, huh.
2 x 5 = 10. (0.1" grid)
4 x 10 = 40. ( 0.05" grid)
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Tomlinson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, November 06, 1999 8:11 AM
Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] : Recommendations for High Density PCB to PCB Connection
"D. C. Sessions" wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Some of us still have slide rules.
> Some of the REALLY cranky ones insisted on making our kids learn them.
> (Looks around furtively.)
>
> Old engineers never die, they just slip away.
Slip AND slide.
My vintage Dietzgen, made of finest bamboo, steel, and dry lubricant, hangs
framed behind glass on the wall in my home office. There, after yielding
many a useful 3 sig-fig result in my college and early work career, it hangs
as a proud reminder of past conquests. My children, on the other hand, refer
to it as a relic of the past - much like the Beetles, the Stones, and Dad.
Cheers,
Dad (the bill payer)
>
> --
> D. C. Sessions
> [email protected]
>
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