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-------- Original message --------From: Dave Casey <polara413@...> Date: 2/10/24 6:52 PM (GMT-08:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TekScopes] Walter Shawlee obituary in the NY Times There's a Stuff Day scheduled for 2/24. Wish I could go.Well, I can, but I wish my wife would let me come home if I did.Dave CaseyOn Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 8:08 PM stevenhorii <sonodocsch@...> wrote:> I miss Walt. I first got acquainted with Sphere Research through slide> rules. I had saved mine from my university days. I still have the Dietzgen> N1725 Vector Log Log. My father was an architect and bought it for me at a> discount since the firm he worked for had a contract with Dietzgen for> drafting instruments. That slide rule got me through p-chem. I only used> the hyperbolic scales to see how they worked. I did use most of the others> for homework problems.>> A lot of my collection came from Sphere Research - new-in-the-box Pickett> rules including their famous N4, also a vector log log. I have one of those> nuclear bomb effects circular slide rules and got it in the book “The> Effects of Nuclear Weapons” but on eBay, not from Walt. Since then, I also> found a Soviet version. Being a radiologist, I thought that understanding> the dangers of the radiation from these weapons was something I should know> about.>> It was only later that I started buying electronics from Walt. He was> always generous and would include a bonus bag of parts. Most were far> better than the usual “floor sweeping” sorts of stuff; a lot of usable> parts in those bags.>> I’m sad that he’s gone but glad Susan carries on. The effects of his years> of catering to many of those in this group are probably well known since> I’m sure many of you would turn your browser to his site the minute his> “Stuff Day” announcements appeared.>> Steve H.>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 16:37 John Griessen via groups.io <john=> [email protected]> wrote:>> > That was a nicely done bio.> >> >> >> >> >> >>>> >>>