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Thread #59418 Message #3631957
Posted By: beardedbruce
10-Jun-14 - 10:39 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
I was one of the last slide rule users in college. The SR-51 calculator was out, and everyone had one for Physics classes- BUT my part-time job was as an electronics tech for the cyclotron lab, and we were not allowed to take calculators into the working areas.
The background radiation was high enough to destroy the electronics in the calculator, and THEY were expensive- (unlike the student techs), so we had to use slide rules when working in the experimental areas.