Pat Flannery wrote:
All the late 1950's-early 1960's newsgroup crew starts doing math on the
back of an envelope; all the late 1960's-early 1970's crew starts doing
math on a electronic calculator; all the late 1970's-early 1980's crew
asks "Pearl what?" Mary Shafer starts figuring out how old that is in
dog years on an abacus; Stuff 4 starts haranguing us about Pearl Harbor;
Bob Haller will still not answer Scott Hedrick's question. :-)

Pat

Pat, Somewhere in there you missed a reference to a slide rule. I
recall
using the beasties in high school.

Sam