Because the glitz of electronics, calulators and computers blinded most of the people who really did not understand how good tables & mechanical calculators were. It gives them a chance to blame something else for f-ups and opens the door for marketing to make them seem old fashioned and promote change. It's a fundamental characteristic of capitalism right there alongside promotion to the level of incompetence.
Be prepared to dig deep brother - very deep.
Yes I’m that old. Hand held calculators did not exist. School had a main frame computer that we could use if we submitted the full Fortran programming for the computation. you won’t know about Friedan calculators. They could add, multiply, divide and tak square roots. Mechanical marvels that went chaching, chaching, chaching for about 30 seconds to do a square root. Like music. Still used the slide rule at work during the early 70s for most things.Are you that old? If so
Transition days. New fangled calculators not allowed in class and banned at test time but slide rules and the book were okay.
At one time I was a bit of wiz kid on a slide rule. Now I could not do shit on it. Lost skill.
More to the Op of this thread. Why did these things die?
I do not care if a manual machine or a 1 million dollar cnc. So useful.
