[ale] OT - Portable Drive

[Jim Lynch]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:47 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>   
>> Here's the first computer I worked with:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2k7lde
>>     
>
> :-)
>
>   
>> Later one of these:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/32sob9
>>     
>
> I recall reading something a few years back that blamed the poor quality
> of EE students coming out of schools on the lack of teaching
> sliderulers.   I never studied sliderulers in school, but I do recall my
> father (now a retired mechanical engineer) teaching me how to use one
> when I was a kid.  I can't say that I ever have used that skill, but it
> hasn't hurt knowing it. ;-)
>
> -Jim P.
>   
When I entered the EE program, we were required to take a one hour per 
week sliderule course to teach us to use a sliderule.  I had been using 
one for 3 years already and found the course very boring.  I dropped 
it.  When I went to graduate, they found I hadn't completed my required 
sliderule class and said I couldn't graduate without taking it.  I did 
the same thing for library science, to teach us to use a library, 
dropped it and had to take it as a 3rd quarter senior.  The government 
isn't the only organization that has it's head where the sun doesn't shine.

Jim.