--- In sliderule@egroups.com, "Warren M. Salomon" <wms@l...> wrote:

> In "From the Terrace," Paul Newman handles a slide rule while he's
> visiting his old aircraft company. He's not calculating anything,

just

> fiddling with it during a meeting. (Not as exciting as "Mantis",
> however.)
>
> There's also a movie with John Wayne, I can't remember the title,
> where a railroad is being built somewhere in the American West,
> and Wayne scornfully tells the boss: "You don't build a railroad
> with sliderules!" (What else would you expect from John Wayne?)

Of course there was "Apollo 13" with the famous slide rule scene (if
anyone doesn't remember the type of slide rule carried on the Apollo
missions, my documentation says that it was a Pickett N600ES, but
instead of the leather case, NASA had a beta cloth case made for it).

I believe, though my recollection may be wrong, that the film "October
Sky" had some scenes with slide rules in it.

Steven Horii