Slide Rule Era 39

[WinelandV]

At the risk of being insensitive, is SlideRuleEra still around? I was trying to access

http://www.slideruleera.net

this morning and that site appears to no longer exists. I don't suppose anyone created a copy of all the data that was there?

Please note that is a "v" (as in Violin) not a "y".

 

[phamENG]

He was around this weekend.

 

[WinelandV]

Thanks, that's good to know.

pham, I don't suppose I can trouble you to try the link? I'm hoping it's a weird firewall thing since I'm in the office.

Please note that is a "v" (as in Violin) not a "y".

 

[JoelTXCive]

There must be some issue with his website provider. I get this notification when trying to access....

 

[WinelandV]

Thanks for checking, Joel. I'm getting that same message.

Please note that is a "v" (as in Violin) not a "y".

 

[brb_SE]

I just tried slideruleera.net, and got a message that the account is suspended. WHOIS shows that the domain registration goes through Jan. 19, 2023.

 

[BAretired]

SlideRuleEra closed the account very recently. I am sad to see it go.

On another note, after 17 years and much consideration I decided to end my website, SlideRuleEra.net. Today is the first day that it appears to be "gone". Thank you for your contributions to it over the years.

It would be great if Eng-Tips could maintain it in the future as it contained a lot of valuable information which is not readily accessed on the internet.

 

[TehMightyEngineer]

Here's the last snapshot on the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221020140935/http://slideruleera.net/

Unfortunately, it doesn't archive PDFs.

Ian Riley, PE, SE
Professional Engineer (ME, NH, VT, CT, MA, FL, CO) Structural Engineer (IL, HI)

 

[WinelandV]

SlideRuleEra closed the account very recently.

Rats. That's really unfortunate.

Teh, thanks for the waybackmachine link. I was at least able to see what SlideRule had out there. Also, I was able to still access at least one of the pdfs.

The reason for this search is I'm going to be adding some equipment to an existing floor. Built approximately in the mid-90's, it's a 3" total thickness concrete on metal deck. I'm trying to hunt down info for it. Right now, all I have is a massive point cloud to measure from. Based on what I'm seeing in the measurements, it doesn't match any profile that Vulcraft currently has. See the snip below for the horizontal dims. Vertically, depending on which points I pick, I get anywhere from 1.2" to 1.37". If anyone has any suggestions for where I could find info on this, I would be very grateful.

Please note that is a "v" (as in Violin) not a "y".

 

[jayrod12]

Is it possible it's just form deck? That's what it kind of looks like.

 

[WinelandV]

I'm assuming it's non-composite. I'd still like to hunt down the load table for it, however.

Please note that is a "v" (as in Violin) not a "y".

 

[Celt83]

try reaching out to SDI, I've seen mention in previous posts about them being able to provide some historic information upon request: Link

 

[JoshPlumSE]

There must be some issue with his website provider. I get this notification when trying to access....

I suspect the next round of "The Twitter Files" will explain why he was shut down.

JK, of course.

 

[CrabbyT]

Well that's super lame.

SlideRuleEra - any chance you could bundle you website's HTML files and your uploaded docs into a ZIP file that could be downloaded and viewed locally?

 

[IRstuff]

The Wayback Machine has tons of copies of the website, and therefore lots of possible PDFs captured, such as this one

https://web.archive.org/web/2022013...a.net/ICBO_Report_Robertson_1388_Nov_1980.pdf

which is not captured in the most recent snapshot.

This page seems to have some PDFs archived, as least, the first couple of links

https://web.archive.org/web/20190518213632/http://www.slideruleera.net/contributions.html

Others seem to have never been captured

TTFN (ta ta for now)
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[SlideRuleEra]

"The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated", but after 17 years made a considered decision that it was time to shut down the website. As BAretired mentioned, this took place in mid-December (I informed BA and a couple of other members at that time). The web hosting 2-year contract was up for renewal and decided to let it go.

winelandv - Using the Wayback Machine, if you can determine which document likely has the info you need, I'll be happy to upload it here.

CrabbyT - Considered doing something like that and made an estimate of the total size of files on the website... stopped counting when it passed 3 gigabytes. Will take another look.

 

[WinelandV]

SlideRuleEra,

Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, it appears that steel decking was under-represented on your site. I was able to grab the pdf for the "ICBO Report - Robertson Steel Floor and Roof Deck (1980)", but the profile I have didn't match any of the Robertson profiles. I have an email out to the SDI and hopefully they will be able to find something.

Thanks for hosting that site for as long as you did - it has been very helpful to me at various points in the last 12 years.



Please note that is a "v" (as in Violin) not a "y".

 

[Lomarandil]

Thanks here as well SRE. The end of an era, even if a small corner of the internet, it was one of the most useful ones.

 

[SlideRuleEra]

Thank you winelandv and Lo. Seeing engineers actually use info from the website has been both a pleasure and interesting. Did not expect that in the beginning.

 

[Celt83]

Thank you from me as well SRE! have gained a good bit of personal knowledge from many of the references that you made available, especially the slide rule documents.