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There are still plenty of slide rules made for pilots, printers,
doctors, and so forth. Dozens of makers of them, including:

http://www.concise.co.jp/eng0731/slide.html
http://iwa-slidecharts.com/en/
http://www.perrygraf.com/products.html
etc..

And a whole bunch of us active slide rule users live at:

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

I, for example, design manual flight computers as a hobby for myself,
using SVG to generate the graphics. I also researched and posted the
E-6B's history on Wikipedia, and have written a couple hundred pages
towards a book on the history of all flight whizwheels.

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

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On Apr 17, 1:35 am, Mxsmanic wrote:
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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