( June 23, 2004 )
My Heroes have Always been Slide Rules
Mike Konshak, is Our Kind of Renaissance man. He is a Vietnam-era combat veteran who’s a data-storage designer by trade, writes screenplays, dabbles in art and photography, he’s a former street minstrel, and has written software for the Commodore 64 & 128.
Mr. Konshak is also a collector of slide rules. Several hundred slide rules. Several hundred slide rules with copius high-resolution photographs.
Mr. Konshak, SCP is in awe (and we thank MetaFilter for the advice).
UPDATE 05.28.2008: most of the links above have died of bit-rot, as Mr. Konshak has moved his collection to the Slide Rule Museum site, and your author cannot find, ahem, analogues for all links.
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September 2nd, 2004 at 2:06 pm
Thank you for the nice comments. I just did a search on my name and popped up with your site. It is interesting that just yesterday my wife Becky mentioned that a neighbor said I was a ‘Renaissance man’. Now I have to go look it up to find out what it means. Thanks for the mention and for visiting my web sites.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
I just want anyone to know that runs across this page that the konshak.com is inactive and the slide rules are on display at the new site http://www.sliderulemuseum.com