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quote:Originally posted by BB_TX
I was at the tail end of that era. Even though calculators were becoming cheap in the late 60's, engineering students at the junior college were required to take a slide rule class. I still have two of them that were never used except for that class.
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I took the first trig class at our local community college that allowed calculators for the final exam. I had a Bowman Brain that cost the princely sum of $80!
It was just basic: add, subtract, multiply, divide and did percentages too. Before our final, I asked the teacher if we could leave once we were done. He laughed and said 'sure'. It was a four hour class, but 30 minutes later, I handed in my test. The teacher said 'wait a minute, you can't be done!'. He checked the paper, gave me an A and shook his head. Yeah, even those four simple functions made a huge difference! I bet the next years class had a lot longer final!
