It was amusing that the movie shows NASA engineers checking /sums of numbers /with their slide rules. The old-timers in the theater groaned quietly but audibly.
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On 2/11/2024 8:37 AM, stevenhorii wrote:
The movie “Apollo 13” famously showed the astronauts
doing a calculation on a slide rule. It was the “pocket” model and was
identical to the consumer one
