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. Yes sir! I agree. Most of us would spend more time trying to find the slide rule than using it! A story like that brings up the American and Russian discussing their "writing devices" used on spacecraft. The Americans used a pressurized ball point pen that was thousands of dollars each...

. It is pretty amazing... One of the guys I used to work with at a big computer company was part of the NASA Apollo Computer group. There were three of those in the capsule for redundancy. I recollect him saying many times that we put man on the moon with a slide rule.

. It would be really interesting to see the LCAC beside the BISON. Both on the beach and on the water. Just a SWAG is that the Bison might be 50% larger. Which naturally makes me want to compare payloads...