Originally Posted by onehundred80

Do you figure this all out with the slide rule as shown in your avatar?
Calculations have come a long way since my apprenticeship days, trig tables, logs, slide rule, the Friden that looked and acted like a maniacal typewriter, the **** with the dodgy filament bulbs and punched cards and then the pocket calculators were developed, my favourite being the HP line and the HP 42C in particular. Now we rarely use them if at all in engineering design, it all being done for us and we just measure with the cursor and the dimension just pops up. I spent countless hours on a Friden doing sets of calculations the pocket calculator would do in minutes and the PC basically instantaneously.
The good old days? I do not miss them at all.