Does upgrading you system have to be on a logarithmic curve?

@jjss49 @ghdprentice 

I feel like I am in an alternate version of Blazing Saddles and instead of hearing "Authentic Gibberish" and I realizing that slide rules were much more common than I thought!  And I have a new appreciation for the folks who had to use them as a primary calculation method versus a back-up calculation method.

There must be something to it as I'm seeing a record number of Posts removed.

@overthemoon

I have read about the rooms full of people doing arithmetic for astronomers fifty or a hundred years before I went to college. In the ‘50’s every scientist and engineer carried a slide rule… or a book of tables. That is the way Sputnik got launched… most of the early space race was based on slide-rules! It is incredible isn’t it? I had three! I lusted after the K&E Bamboo for years… way out of my financial ability. The smoothness and effortlessness of using it.

Then virtually overnight… it was gone… buggy whips lasted a lot longer… there was such a long transition. Overnight, calculators replaced slide rules.

Our technology today is built on the shoulders of such incredible advancement. My father worked a team of horses to plow the fields! … and rode a horse drawn cart to go to town for supplies! I went down with my father to shovel coal into the furnace for heat each night (Chicago) so we had heat every night! Wow.

I implemented global system to run entire corporations from a single computer system while flying around the world in less than a month… many times. Incredible change.

Say what?