”You cannot overestimate the passion that engineers and scientists of that generation have for the slide rule,” said Douglas, carefully sorting these precursors to the calculator with her white curator’s gloves. —Jonathan Abel —For curator, slide rules are cutting edge (Boston.com)
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A “relic of Nerd-dom” ??? Can we get a reliquary for the slide rule in my office? Who would annoint it (and with what)?
Joshua