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> I used to actually keep a slide rule in there, too, just for > this purpose. Nowadays, that just seems a little too dated.... ;-) > You mean like Coca Cola boxes and picnic sets, you mean? Isn't that the essence of 'cool'? I think I remember seeing it, but actually one of the retirement gifts I'd been given by my year team at school was a pretty nifty little all-in-one digital travel alarm clock with temp sensor (F or C), time zones and alternate time so I didn't have to keep changing it, and calculator all combined - just the right present to play with as we sped across time zones in the blasting heat, with mpg to calculate every few hundred miles. In my defence I stuck with my slide rule until about 1982 when I was blown away by a Sharp programmable calculator which was made for scientists and engineers and displayed the exponent as ... x 10(power in small numbers as a superscript) and had excellent treatment of formulae entry (reverse Polish notation or something). I still use it sometimes even these days. Dave. UK VW Type 3 & 4 Club http://www.hallvw.clara.co.uk/ ------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org