Larry, you are a man to mine own heart *grin*.

Along with the Slide Rule, I also sometimes load the Sextant into my kit when doing TechRep work on GSAT systems.

You should see the faces of the younger set when I pull that thing out of the case and step out onto the flybridge...

"What's he DOING?"

"I think he's DIVINING our postion. From the STARS..."

"Can that be done?"

Does anyone remember the scene in the movie "Apollo 13" where the engineer confronted with in-flight emergency is shown with a TI Calculator?

Hard to find that scene anymore as so many of us contacted the Producer, etc. to tell them that there weren't any TI calculators at the time of Apollo 13. So they actually redid the movie and inserted a clip of the guy using his slipstick...

Then, of course, there's this digital code, the only one that can be translated using nothing more than the human brain. "Morse Code" -- Yet another skillset which should not have been allowed to languish.


--Mac

Last edited by Mac; 08/18/12 07:44 AM.
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