Comment by shellback3
17 hours ago
I was issued one at King's Point Merchant Marine Academy in 1957 and used it constantly. A side benefit was the learned ability to estimate an answer and decimal point a skill which I still use. As I recall I mostly used multiplication, division, logs, and trig. I think I quit using it when I purchased a HP scientific calculator years later.
Re: your username
My mom found my shellback card among some stuff in her basement and asked if I’d like her to send it to me. Yes, please! Darned if I want to earn a replacement card.
Shwllback3 was my radio callsign in Vietnam in '67 & '68.
Nice. I got mine 4 miles off the coast of Mogadishu in '94.