deskthority

Recently acquired.

I'm really wondering about this : who knows what this is and how to use it?

It seems to be some kind of measuring device.

Not quiet.....

EDIT :

Not Quite.....

Slide rulers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keuffel_and_Esser

*Quite

EDIT: also http://www.etsy.com/listing/113124194/v ... ffel-esser

EDIT2: Memory started again

Believe it or not, but as young as I am I have used something similar in the past I think. It is has to do with making calculations before calculators were common. (Big numbers and everything.)

EDIT3: Why didn't I just link this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule

EDIT4: I'm actually more an IRC person

Yes....

The calculators before the electronic age.... Amazing what you can do with them...

I remember even more now. Back in the day when I wasn't allowed to use calculators at school I used to bring such a thing with me (cheap plastic version) and did my math with such a thing. Took them months to find out I was using such a thing.

Mrinterface wrote:Amazing what you can do with them...

I don't care how old the technology is, the important question is if you can browse to deskthority with it.

webwit wrote:

Mrinterface wrote:Amazing what you can do with them...

I don't care how old the technology is, the important question is if you can browse to deskthority with it.

You've got your priorities wrong, the question should be whether or not you can use it to write 80085.

damn, why do I find this thread only now.

I have a Faber Castell "Schul-Disponent 57/22" and an Aristo Scholar VS-2.

Even though this was way before my time, I'm still very fascinated, by how much and how easily you can do calculations with slide rules once you get used to them. Also they're really great to show the rules of logarithms.

RC-1140 wrote:Also they're really great to show the rules of logarithms.

The reason I got it....