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Originally Posted by A930Rocket

^^^ That reminds me, I need to check with my brother and sisters to see if they still have my dad‘s slide. He used it when he was at Clemson in the 40s.

THat would be very cool!

Originally Posted by onZedge

This thread poked some memory cells.

Bulkeley High School, Hartford CT.
Senior year. 1975 I think.
Last Final Exam as a high school student.
Senior AP Math.
Working on the last "extra credit' problem, and just had to "square" a value, and done.
TI calculator battery dies.
90 seconds left...not enough time to do longhand.
I look over to my buddy Mike and ask if his calculator has a "square" key.
He looks at his calculator.
He looks at me.
He says: "Ed, they're ALL square".
We laughed out loud.
We get thrown out of class.
We explain the cause of the outburst to our teacher.
She laughed out loud.
We both get A's. and graduate...

ROFLMAO! Thank goodness I wasn't drinking anything when I read that!

I found a surprisingly active slide rule group on facebook, and started scrolling through some posts. One person posted that they'd gone to the "Cosmosphere, a space museum in Hutchinson, Kansas." They posted photos of " couple of historically noteworthy slide rules on display".

Turns out the one that I just received and posted the pic of above is the same model as one of those historically noteworthy models. Fargin' cool!