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Upcoming Meetings
- June 29, 2013 - Twenty-second Annual OS West Coast Summer meeting. Mountain View, California.
Computer History Museum. Oughtred Society Members are invited to attend. Non-members welcome!.
$90 before June 11.
Click here for Details and Registration.
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Past Meeting Reports
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February 16, 2012 The 2013 Oughtred Society Winter Meeting and Auction was held in Tucson,
Arizona at the world-renowned Pima Air and Space Museum.
Bill Robinson provided a look back at his use of slide rules to design the wings on the B-47 and B=52 bombers, and Mike Konshak brought an
extensive display characteristic of his current
International Slide Rule Museum exhibitson the evolution of slide rules to electronic 'slide rule' calculators.
Peruse the Meeting Report by hosts Richard Davis and Martha Prince.
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September 21-23, 2012 IM 2012 - 18th International Meeting of Slide Rule & Historic Calculating
Instrument Collectors "Slide Rules for the Trades" was hosted by the UK Slide Rule Circle September
21-23 at Bletchley Park, home of the wartime codebreakers. The meeting took place in the Library of
the historic Victorian Mansion and was probably the most cosmopolitan IM ever held, with attendees from
the UK, USA, Netherlands, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Sweden, Belgium and Israel. Many
interesting talks were given including "Machine Gun Slide Rules" by John Hunt Snr., "Flight Navigation
Computers" by Ronald van Riet, "People and Slide Rules in Film" by Prof. Karl Kleine, and "Engineering
Slide Rules and the Evolution of Excise Rules" by Tom Wyman.
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June 23, 2012 Summer Meeting. The
Twenty-first Annual Summer Meeting was held at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
The President of the Oughtred Society, Bob De Cesaris hosted the event. Tom Wyman hosted the after
meeting dinner at his nearby home and wrote the report. Elections were held, and the OS now has 387 members including
23 new members and 116 international members.
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February 25, 2012 - OS Winter meeting. was held
for the first time in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, at the
Autry National Center. Herb Gold was the host. Dick Rose acted as auctioneer with an
educational presentation by Richard Smith Hughes.
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The International Meeting of Collectors of Historical Calculating
Instruments (IM 2011) was hosted by the Oughtred Society at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts on September 23-25, 2011.
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June 25, 2011 Summer Meeting The
Twentieth Annual Summer Meeting was held at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
The President of the Oughtred Society, Bob De Cesaris hosted the event. Tom Wyman hosted the after
meeting dinner at his nearby home.
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2011 Winter Meeting (Fourth Annual) was held in Las Vegas,
February 19, 2011 at the Atomic Testing Museum. Meeting chairman was again Richard Davis of Las Vegas. Tom Wyman writes this report.
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November 6, 2010 Fall Meeting on the East Coast was held at the
Wingate in Vineland, New Jersey. Paul McConnell hosted this event and wrote the report
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June 26, 2010 Summer Meeting West Coast Annual Summer meeting was held on June 26 at the Computer History Museum. Mountain View, California.
Tom Wyman hosted the event.
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2010 Winter Meeting (Third Annual) was held in Las Vegas,
February 20, 2010 at the Atomic Testing Museum. Meeting chairman was again Richard Davis of Las Vegas.
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2009 Fall Meeting was held
in Florham Park, New Jersey, November 7, 2009 at the Hamilton Park Hotel under the direction of Kate Matthews.
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2009 Summer Meeting was held in Mountainview, CA
June 27, 2009 at the Computer History Museum. Report by Clark McCoy and Tom Wyman
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2009 Winter Meeting (Second Annual) was held in Las Vegas,
February 21, 2009 at the Atomic Testing Museum. Meeting chairman was again Richard Davis of Las Vegas.
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2008 Winter Meeting February 23, 2008, in Las Vegas, NV.
More can be found in the Spring OS Bulletin
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East Coast November 10, 2007, in Westbrook, CT
by Paul McConnell.
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West Coast 2007 (June Meeting), in Mountain View, CA.
by Clark McCoy.
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East Coast 2006, in Claymont, DE,
by Paul McConnell.
in
PDF format and in
MS Word format.
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West Coast 2006 (Spring Meeting), in Mountain View, CA,
by Clark McCoy.
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East Coast 2005, in Cambridge, MA,
by Tom Wyman, et al.
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East Coast 2005 (Fall Meeting), at the MIT Museum,
by Clark McCoy.
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IM 2005, in Cambridge, UK,
by Tom Wyman. (MS Word format)
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West Coast 2005, in Mountain View, CA,
by Clark McCoy.
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West Coast 2005, in Mountain View, CA,
by Dick Lyon, et al.
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MIT Museum, December 2004,
Exhibition Planning Workshop,
by Jim Cerny.
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East Coast 2004, in East Windsor, NJ,
by Jim Cerny.
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West Coast 2004, in Palo Alto, CA,
by Clark McCoy.
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East Coast 2003, in East Windsor, NJ,
by Jim Cerny.
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West Coast 2003, in Palo Alto, CA,
by Clark McCoy.
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East Coast 2002, in East Windsor, NJ,
by Jim Cerny for Michael O'Leary.
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East Coast 2001, in East Windsor, NJ,
by Jim Cerny.
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West Coast 2001, in Palo Alto, CA,
by Kate Matthews.
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