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Slide rules still commercially available?
05-17-2014, 07:07 AM
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RE: Slide rules still commercially available?
(05-17-2014 12:23 AM)Dave Britten Wrote:  My wife's a teacher, and brought up those old EZ Grader special-purpose grading slide rules that teachers always seemed to have. I made her a quick and dirty iPad rendition in Numbers (would have been Lotus, but she doesn't use an LX), and then went hunting around and found they're still commercially available!

http://www.ezgrader.com

Are there any other companies still commercially producing some form of slide rules/cardboard "computers"? I'm guessing they'd all be pretty special-purpose, much like the EZ Grader products.

Last year I bought a Faber-Castell 2/83N direct from Germany -- brand new, top-of-the-line with a huge number of scales on it. It ran about 80 euros as I recall, including shipment to Australia. My brother-in-law liked it so much that I bought him one for Christmas...
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RE: Slide rules still commercially available? - JimP - 05-17-2014 07:07 AM



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