Hi All,

This is a follow up to Paul Ross's report of a news article of the
Hemmi re-creation project.

Our Hemmi slide rule re-creation project was reported in two of the major
newspapers in Japan, Nikkei (February 10, 2005) and Mainichi (March 2,
2005.) I have uploaded the pictures which accompanied the articles to photos
section of ISRG site. They are in a folder named "Hemmi SR re-creation
Pj."

BTW, The guy with a lot of SRs is supposed to be designing a
plastic model airplane as a hobby. According to him, the photographer
wanted to put more rules than necessary "to make it lively."

These articles seem to have created a wave of interest in slide rules.
We received more than 100 inquiries for the project. We are considering
to up the order to 300 instead of the previous 200.

Access to SR auctions at Yahoo Japan seem to have jumped. One seller
says he received more than 1,000 hits to one of his SR auctions at
Yahoo in less than 9 hours since he posted it, and wonders what is
going on?

Below is the link to the on-line version of Mainichi article.
There is an image of a girl holding a SR. If you want to fully
enjoy the article, you may want to use a web translation service.

http://www.mainichi-msn.co.jp/today/news/20050302k0000e040029000c.html
(Combine lines into one if your browser breaks the link into 2 lines.)

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