Anniversary of an amazingly enduring design
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:32:01 -0500, Wes wrote:
cavelamb wrote:
And, he didn't have AutoCAD or Alibre to do his designs VBG
Karl
Neither did NASA when we went to the moon.
I wonder how much sooner we would have got there if the engineers had a scientific
calculator instead of those books of logarithms?
Wes
That capability was available if needed. There were Frieden
calculators, Kurta calculators, and FORTRAN became commercially
available in 1957.
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