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Ron Wood · 03-27-2011, 07:55 PM

Rich,
I don't know what Dad paid for the slip-stick. It was a gift, and I remember at the time it seemed like a pretty expensive item for a carpenter to be buying for his son. It is a model 4081-3.

They still had one of those vacuum tube monsters at Ft. Bliss, TX, in the early 60s. I remember it taking up several rooms, and we programmed it by flipping bit switces on the front panel and entering each instruction one at a time.

tomaustin · 03-27-2011, 11:19 PM

i really understood all the things they could do....

i also remember in 1961, some fellow coming to our Humble Oil office in Tyler, Texas and showing us a storage device which would eliminate all our filing cabinets. thank god we waited a year or two before expanding our use of the "new technology"

incidentally, my first handheld calculator was in 1970, cost $86.00 and would do FOUR functions.....
still got it and it still works fine....

03-27-2011, 07:55 PM	#1
Ron Wood Moderator 2010 LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Santa Teresa New Mexico just outside of the West Texas town of El Paso Posts: 7,040 Thanks: 1,106 Thanked 5,257 Times in 1,724 Posts	Rich, I don't know what Dad paid for the slip-stick. It was a gift, and I remember at the time it seemed like a pretty expensive item for a carpenter to be buying for his son. It is a model 4081-3. They still had one of those vacuum tube monsters at Ft. Bliss, TX, in the early 60s. I remember it taking up several rooms, and we programmed it by flipping bit switces on the front panel and entering each instruction one at a time. __________________ If it's made after 1918...it's a reproduction

03-27-2011, 11:19 PM	#2
tomaustin Lifer X5 Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: texas Posts: 708 Thanks: 87 Thanked 522 Times in 201 Posts	i still have several slide rules..i still remember how little i really understood all the things they could do.... i also remember in 1961, some fellow coming to our Humble Oil office in Tyler, Texas and showing us a storage device which would eliminate all our filing cabinets. thank god we waited a year or two before expanding our use of the "new technology" incidentally, my first handheld calculator was in 1970, cost $86.00 and would do FOUR functions..... still got it and it still works fine.... Last edited by tomaustin; 03-27-2011 at 11:21 PM. Reason: correct

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