Do I have the only slide rule

[lowell holmes]

Do I have the only 6" Pickett Model 600 Log Log slide rule left in existence?

Just curious.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Maybe.

But I might have the only 13" Teledyne Post No. 1414 log log slide rule.

[Jamie Buxton]

I have one. The marking on it is N600-T. I have the leather case too.

[Stan Calow]

I have one. If only I could remember how to use it.

[Rich Riddle]

What are you discussing? Never heard of it.

[Tom Stenzel]

What are you discussing? Never heard of it.

Um, OK.

Pickett N803 Synchro-Scale for me, also with a leather case and belt clip. Was it the height of cool or nerdliness to have one hanging from your belt?

I also have a pre WWII Gibson circular Midget (answer good to 1 in 30,000, the manual says so!) that I picked up for 50 cents a few decades back. I'm afraid to us it, the plastic fingers look like they're made of acetate or something like it and look pretty brittle.

-Tom

[John M Wilson]

Well, maybe that means I have the only Pickett Model 120 Microline (with case), but somehow I doubt it...

[Bruce Page]

I had one years ago. I think I tossed it when I bought my first TI calculator.

[Rich Riddle]

Ok, so it functions much like a calculator. Some of the old timers in here might have started with an abacus.

[Michael Weber]

Do they still make addiators? Bought one for an accounting class.

[Stan Powers]

I still have two
A ten in. Post and a 6in. circular.
I haven't used either one in years. It might be fun to try and "teach" the grandkids some rainy afternoon.

[Mike Henderson]

I have a Post. When I was in college, almost everyone had a Post. We'd often get together to work out homework assignments and when it came time to pick up your slide rule, we couldn't tell which belonged to who. And that was important because each person adjusted their rule to their liking. Some liked them tight and some loose.

So I had my initials engraved on the metal holding it together. I still have mine and could probably use it, but not with the ease I had when in college. Watching a bunch of engineering students work their rules during a test was interesting.

Mike

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[Bruce Page]

Here's a pic of my Curta "pepper mill" calculator circa mid 50's that belonged to my dad. It replaced his slide rule. I was forbidden to even touch it when I was a kid.

[Von Bickley]

I wish I knew what happened to mine.

[Bob Turkovich]

Maybe.

But I might have the only 13" Teledyne Post No. 1414 log log slide rule.

Either you are not the original owner or it was given to you at birth. (1942!!!!)

(Post Versalog Model 1460 owner here - circa 1968)