Are you a slide rule enthusiast?

My friend Andrew asked today if I knew anywhere in Cambridge where he could buy a slide rule. I couldn't help him (though I do own a rather nice one).

But I did stumble across the website of the UK Slide Rule Circle, an 'informal group of slide rule enthusiasts'.

If you consider yourself a slide rule enthusiast - and who, in their innermost thoughts, does not? - then this might be just what you're looking for...

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Kevan October 18, 2005 at 3:32 p.m.

Ron Manley who runs this site: http://www.sliderules.clara.net/ lives in Cambridge, he may be able to provide further help.

David October 19, 2005 at 9:52 p.m.

This summer I was able to visit Stanford's exhibit on the slide rule - http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/exhibits/sliderule.html If you aren't a slide rule enthusiast, one visit should cure it.

Luis F. Gambetta Schraimann October 22, 2005 at 6:49 p.m.

If any one need a slide rule, look at sites like eBay: every day a lot of them are traded. If manuals or instructions, search the web, there are lot of free downloadable manuals Search for VIRTUAL SLIDE RULES, its funny, you can download working slide rules you can use on screen If all these things fails, try to e-mail me, lgambetta@adinet.com.uy. I am NOT an expert, but an enthusiast and collector who have used a slide rule at college and at the beginning at university (those were the days, my friend...)

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