>Did anybody else spot the Thatcher in "Time After Time", the 1979 movie
>about H. G. Wells chasing Jack The Ripper to 20th century San Francisco?
>It was shown when the camera panned around Wells' basement workshop. Oh
>yeah, the movie was good too.

Speaking of slide rules and movies toward the end of the use of the slide
rule in the mainstream (note that I said mainstream, not use!) a reference
to slide rules can be found in "Mr. Mom" in which the character Jinx
(played by Jeffrey Tambor) says to Jack (Michael Keaton): "There's nothing
I can do about it Jack, there's blood on my slide rule". I thought that to
be interesting because the movie was made in 1983.

Has anybody mentioned Fantastic Voyage? A slide rule is used by the General
Carter, played by Edmund O'Brian to calculate the time required for the
craft to travel through the heart of the patient.

Casual observations from a mind clouded by cesspool of useless information...

James