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That's sad and unfortunate. Experts and dealers of such equipment are a dissapearing breed. I have 2 slide rules; a super cheap plastic unit from high school days, and a full-sized Dietzgen I bought for a dollar (leather case and all). It was in a junked car at a pick'nPull yard. My skills have gotten very rusty, so now I prefer my HP-15c handheld or my HP-42c emulators on my iPhone.

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I inherited a small collection of them and have no idea what to do with them. I have no interest in keeping them but throwing them away seems wrong.

Yeah, I occasionally have that problem -- I don't want to be the custodian of these items with minor collect-ability, they aren't particularly valuable (to have an easy market to get them into the hands of someone who does), but I also don't want to be the person to just discard little bits of history.

Last weekend I was on a block where a store probably has them, and I didn't think to stop in. Shoot.

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