Group: sliderule Message: 46690 From: mjbauer001 Date: 21/12/2015
Subject: Re: Sightings - MST3K
A few years ago, I got a bug to watch as many of the halfway-decent 1940s-60s science fiction films as I could get streamed onto my PC (I was low for a couple of weeks for a recuperation). Besides enjoying the films themselves, I was also specifically on the lookout for sliderules. I am amazed at how few instances of slide rule sightings I could find. Lots of dramatic peering at boiling beakers and squinting at microscopes, etc., but few actual calculations (perhaps that why the experiments always went awry LOL).

Flash forward to now. I've been binge-watching old TV series on YouTube. Just found a British 1960s series, "Department S" - and the first episode has a sighting. Navigator aboard a jetliner, using a conventional 10-inch model, not the E6 type. FYI. Pilot episode, in the first few minutes. Onscreen only a few moments.