[ecornflak]

Its a little off-topic, but my dad passed away last year and left behind a collection of about 40 slide rules.

Aside from his personal slide rule from university and his first job (working at ICL in Manchester designing multiplier boards for mainframes) I don't really want the rest of the collection.

Does anyone else want them?

[bainsfather]

I bought myself a 2nd hand slide rule on uk ebay last year. Price was something like £5-£10 including postage, for a rather battered and 'cheap' example.

I really liked learning about it, seeing how it worked, etc. Such an ingenious idea!

So if nothing else, it might be worth putting them on ebay - there seems to be a market for them.