Well, since the gauntlet has been thrown down, and you all have a good
idea of
my "taste" in sci-fi fare, I'll mention an episode of "Voyage to the
Bottom of the Sea",
which dealt with a mishap in the Seaview's missle fail-safe and
fire-control systems.
Both a junior officer and Admiral Nelson were seen wielding slide rules
to calculate
the rate of rise of an errant missle that ahd to be ejected without
letting it breach the
surface and detonate.

I also remember June Lockhart waving a slide rule around in the episode
of "Lost
In Space" entitled "The Raft", where the Jupiter 2's reactor housing was
made into
a small spaceship to enable one person to get back to Earth and summon
help.

Oh, and I seem to recall an episode of "Star Trek" where George Takei (as
Lt. Sulu)
was manipulating an E6B, but I could be wrong.

Hmm. Anyone notice a pattern here? Surprising that I became a civil
engineer!

Jeff

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