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    22-Feb-94 22:22:57
Sb: #121832-n
Fm: Todd Frank 73504,1350
To: Daniel Ochs 73174,11
In the early seventies and eighties when I was in college there were no calculators. At least not the hand held varieties. We had to use slide rules. In most General Chemistry classes the semester started out with lessons on how to use a slide rule. To do this a very large slide rule, about six feet in lenght and 1.5 feet in length was hung over the blackboard and the professor used it to demostrate to students slide rule techniques. They worked the same and where just as accurate as the small hand held models. Perhaps if you call some local universities they may have one, forgotten and in storage some where.