Watch this...

[restorer]

These can make just about anything. One (just like it or possibly this one) went for $1525.00 (£989.00) just before Christmas.


Be Amazed


I still have an old British Thornton that gets regular use for work, and a few other collectable ones. But nothing like this order of magnitude in value.

 

[Wozzaaah]

What sort of things is it supposed to make? I've been sat here watching it for the last ten minutes it hasn't made anything. Maybe it's broken.

 

[restorer]

^Funny!

In the world of slide rule collecting these are the top of the tree.

They are not worth anything like what people are prepared to pay so it can take pride of place in their collection. It's a must have if you're serious though.

The market might have cooled down from the dizzy heights but expect it to make a good few hundred pounds.

 

[restorer]

The listing for the record breaking one is still up.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mint-ARISTO-slide-rule-0972-Duplex-Hyperlog-/121034368152

Ludicrous amount paid for it. Correction: £968.56

 

[rtbcomp]

Analogue computers that consume zero power must be worth a fortune!

 

[Fintray]

Analogue computers that consume zero power must be worth a fortune!

Only if the biological computer knows how to use one!

 

[mike 109444]

Analogue computers that consume zero power must be worth a fortune!

The digital one I am using now uses zero power if I unplug it se




Opps

 

[keith19]

Remember using these back in the 1970's, but not posh ones like that. On piece-work, you used the rule to estimate how many you'd need to average an hour, allowing for ten minutes in every hour for work stoppages like moving the stillages with a stacker, take a slash, interruptions from chargehand, workmates, etc. No nice little electronic calculators then...

 

[restorer]

It's gone from £55.99 to $200.00 already. And still five and a half days to go.

Looks like this one's gonna fly.

 

[Pete.]

Obsolete stuff is always worth more

 

[rtbcomp]

When I bought my workshop I found an old electric motor in a box, I thought it belonged to a Meccano set so I put it on Ebay UK - no interest.

I then tried it on Ebay worldwide. It went to several hundred pounds in a few days and people kept asking me to end the auction early. I let it run and it went to £1300, plus £75 Datapost to the USA.

I later found out that it came from an old Edison phonograph. I only paid £5000 for the workshop!

 

[cardiffrob]

I use a circular slide rule every day at work (Well, I only work once or twice a week. Ahem.) and I was asked by one of the younger members of the crew what it was. "Circular slide rule, just a round version of a normal slide rule"

Guess what their next question was.





At what age did I suddenly become an old fart?

 

[chunkolini]

Come the apocalypse slide rule munchers will be the computing gods.
How many cockroaches is 15 cats worth. Bearing in mind hyper inflation