On Apr 17, 1:35 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
writes:
There are still plenty of slide rules made for pilots, printers,
doctors, and so forth. Dozens of makers of them, including:

All good news to hear. But I guess Pickett is out of business (?).

Yes, but their entire inventory, which was about to be sold to Mexico
as scrap, was bought by a collector 25 years ago, and is fed out to
others.

Other families, like the Faber-Castells, don't make slide rules any
more, but have hosted collector parties in their castle and given away
valuable samples.

In the International Slide Rule Group I mentioned before, we still
have a custom rule made for us every couple of years or so.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sliderule/

Some other sites of interest to anyone into slide rules:

http://www.oughtred.org
http://www.sliderulemuseum.com/
http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/sruniverse.html

Kev