[AT] Blizzard of '78

[Mike Sloane]

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