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January 6, 2016 09:49 am PST
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The iPhone of slide rules
I have vague memories of my older scientist brother Mark wearing a slide rule in a leather case on his belt. It was really one of the first wearable computers, although a mechanical, analog one. Then in 1974, he was able to purchase a Texas Instruments SR-50, the first mass-market commercial electronic calculator. The slide rule was buried in Mark's desk drawer, where the SR-50, and later his Sharp Wizard, Palm Pilot, and their descendants would ultimately end up as well. (He died wearing a calculator wristwatch!)
In this episode of Numberphile, Alex Bellos explains the seduction of the slide rule and also the Halden Calculex, a device he calls the "iPhone of Slide Rules."
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/9tMFp-NIIO8/the-iphone-of-slide-rules.html
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