Moral panic article from 1984 about the demise of slide rules

They have a lot of slide rules in the museum of computers in Mountain View, I spent a a long visit there looking at stuff, and felt bad for some family members that came along and were bored. Regarding calculators, a while ago I got a HP35s (A somewhat recent one but purposefully made with a retro look) calculator and use it at work, infrequently but with great joy. It has a fair amount of memory and can be programmed with a lot of digging in the manuals.

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