Hello folks,

I have seen 2 sightings on dvd's in the last couple of weeks, and since I
haven't been able to find the slide rule sightings website, I'll mention
them here at the risk of repeating the sighting.

The first was during a fairly recent movie, set in Australia, called "The
Dish", with Sam Neill in it. (He was the crusty paleontologist in the
Jurassic Park movies.) It takes place in 1969, when Armstrong walked on the
moon, and describes the small town in Australia with a dish that received
and transmitted that half of the world's messages to and from the moon
mission. In it, one of the characters says the computer could do in
minutes what used to take them 5 hours with a slide rule to calculate.

The other sighting was in a dvd I got from the library; I think it may have
been a tv show, called Space Age, and hosted/narrated by Patrick Stewart.
The Chapter title was Undiscovered Universe (I think), and one of the
scientists was holding one (I think). I guess it's pretty fuzzy at this
point, I have to re-request the movie so I can watch it again, not to
mention the rest of the chapters on the disk.

--Kate MacLean