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It gets worse. Google "buy slide rule" and the first link is "Slide Rule World" http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sliderule.html[^]
It's nice (but a little worrying) to know there are people more anal than yourself... 
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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Anal wouldn't have been the word I would have used but to be KSS that will work. I bet they also wear pocket protectors too. 
Dang I believe the one I owned was the green K E in the left hand side bar here[^]. It's a small world ain't it?
Fresh off the WAYBACK machine. Just a few. Amazing, but true, we still have BRAND NEW slide rules. These are disappearing quickly.
Ugh?? (scratches head)
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Started in the third grade when a friend's mother converted a janitor's closet at the school to a PC lab with 5 TRS-80's in it. We went down in groups and did some logo and basic programming. Fun times, and what started me on this path. I would have been 8 going on 9. Jeez that's a long time ago.
He said, "Boy I'm just old and lonely,
But thank you for your concern,
Here's wishing you a Happy New Year."
I wished him one back in return.
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When I was in high school, there were no computer courses at all, yet the one course I took in grade 9 that has helped me the most in life was type writing. Learning the QWERTY keyboard is a skill that I still use today and helps me a lot. It wasn't until I was in University that computer courses were starting to be available. And even then I only took two courses.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Who cares for courses? Programming ist like cooking and washing: Something to learn at home, not at school. 
This statement is false.
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I'm actually going to agree with you Corinna, though I'd qualify the agreement by saying it refers to today's programming environment. However back in 1972, the only two ways of learning programming were either on-the-job or at University and College.
Chris Meech
I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar]
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra]
posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Only if you cook and wash for yourself and never for others.
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I can relate, Chris. I first started playing around with the TRS-80 at the back of the math classroom in 1980. That was my senior year in high school. I agree on the enduring value of the typing class. The school was filled with IBM Selectric typewriters and had one computer. Today the schools are filled with computers and nobody knows what a typewriter is. Funny how 3 decades changes things. What year was it you started?
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The typing class I took my senior year of high school (1983) used manual typewriters. It didn't take -- I type my own special way.
Member 110323 wrote: and had one computer
What was it? My school's was the PDP-11 that ran the town's whole school system.
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It was the TRS-80 in the math class room. The first computer I ever laid hands on.
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I was in HS in 1998, and we were still using typewriters for the typing class... I grew up in a poor school district 
I didn't learn to type fast until it became a necessity of communicating in FPS and RTS games 
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