Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for August 12, 2013

A brainy geek’s gotta do what a brainy geek’s gotta do….

I liked my slide rule! (I was near to out of HS before calculators got cheap enough for me to own one.)

I thought Oliver Wendell Jones had already retired his Banana Jr.?

A slide rule doesnt suffer a systems crash nor is replaced by something newer and user unfreindlier every 3 years.

slide rules may be comparable to calculators, but not to computers

All you people lauding the advantages of the slide rule sound like the dinosaurs who maintain drafting was faster on a drawing board. Reality jumps in with the fact that while computers are more complicated and are dependent upon a power supply, they are more accurate and allow for much better work than the old methods. I know because I have lived during both the transitions from slide rules to calculators and board drafting to computer aided drafting. I enjoyed both learning how to use a slide rule and drawing on a drafting board, but once I became proficient in the use of the modern tools, I was frustrated when I had to use the old methods.

BUT! Rambo was a jerk.

Ditto. It’s hard changing with the times, I guess.

I will have to find a way to record my cassettes to CDs as well as my VHS tapes to DVDs. The VHS tapes to DVDs will require a DVD/VHS recorder. I will have to find out how to record my cassettes to CDs.