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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:17:27 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] Fwd: Old and Tradition was [TUHS] V9 shell
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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