Bob Noel wrote:

But did you have a slide rule in highschool because calculators
were still $100+?

nay. As a self respecting nerd, I spent all my money into
a programmable one (and I was ****ed when not long afterward,
the HP41 came out -- now any other self respecting nerd out
there with some historical perspective will know how old I
am :-) Slide rules is something I actually did learn to
appreciate later -- or which were required for exams
(anything electronic being banned more often than not);

--Sylvain