The Chesapeake Bay Boat Show - anyone been there?

[Jaybeaux]

In college in the early 80's, the HP 41 CV programmable calculator was the bomb. People (me included) would give answers to "ump-teem" significant digits, with half of them behind the decimal point. If the calculator came up with 8,278,292.02129834, t he Professor would say he trusted the 0.012129834 more than the 8,278,292!

 

[highslice]

I use to use slide rules in high school….. can you imagine the guys brain that came up with that concept?…. That’s how you know aliens exist you just can’t trip over that idea

What I find truly amazing is the concept that planes like the SR-71 and F-15 were designed using slide rules. My Dad was the lead engineer for the avionics on the F-15. I'll have to dig them up, but he had pictures of massive rooms filled with drafting tables (they called the rooms bullpens) with engineers with slide rules. Most of them had their slide rules in a "holster" attached to their belts.

 

[Flyer5]

Slide rule, manual micrometer, Oh man! There is no way on the world I could ever read them anymore even with glasses. The thought of that just makes my head hurt!

Funny you should say that. Happened to me a few weeks ago. Went and grabbed the digital. What happened to the golden years?

 

[Blueone]

Anyone been to this? It is fairly local to me and cheap, but I am not really into bow riders, center consoles or fishing, so not sure

LOL!!….. this thread sure went off the tracks

 

[Flyer5]

In college in the early 80's, the HP 41 CV programmable calculator was the bomb. People (me included) would give answers to "ump-teem" significant digits, with half of them behind the decimal point. If the calculator came up with 8,278,292.02129834, t he Professor would say he trusted the 0.012129834 more than the 8,278,292!

I remember 80085 on the calculator

 

[Skybolt]

... What happened to the golden years?

They went broke and ran out of money ... And couldn't hide the truth anymore!