[AT] Blizzard of '78

Dick Day ddss at telebeep.com
Sat Jan 29 09:18:04 PST 2011


Mike, is that a CP/M machine or DOS?  I may be able to get you a disk, not 
sure.

Dick

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From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 10:50 AM
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Blizzard of '78

> I am sitting here looking at my Otis King Calculator Model L. This is a
> slide rule that looks something like an antique telescope. It sits on a
> shelf with some other antiquities from the the days of BC (Before
> Calculators). <http://www.svpal.org/~dickel/OK/OtisKing.html>
>
> And I still have a few other slide rules tucked away in the back of desk
> drawers (along with 9.6 modems, 5 1/2" floppy drives, fountain pens, dot
> matrix printer ribbons, rolls of adding machine paper, etc.) And out in
> the barn is a perfectly good Kaypro "portable" computer (except that I
> don't have the operating system floppy for it).
>
> Mike
>
> On 1/29/2011 10:59 AM, Larry Goss wrote:
>> Anybody need a slide rule?  I still have my collection stored under
>> the stairs in a utility closet.  My 6-foot classroom slide rule is
>> stored on top of the wall cabinets in my office -- for emergency use
>> when the power goes off and my batteries go dead!
>>
>> Larry
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