Dando un vistazo a lo que se cuentan los de la ISRG he encontrado esta perla en este mensaje (
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sliderule/message/36453):
I know I took a jab at the Fabers. I bought a couple for a pretty penny based
on the aura that seems to surround them. I really did not like them. Yet I
accept the verdict of the market that these are rules to be coveted. There
seems to be plenty of them. Why is top notch Faber worth so much more than a
Pickett N-4? I mean, if you were lost in the jungle with an N4 you could pull
the slide out, sharpen it into a machete, use the cursor to start fires, make
the stators into the roof of your lean-to, then reassemble the whole thing and
use it to signal passing aircraft (I am assuming an ES here). A Faber 2/82
would just melt the first time you tried to grill fish on it.
Dedicado a los que no les gustan las Pickett...

Controversicos Saludos