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I had a Hexco RPG ruler at each of my previous two positions. Unfortunately they were purchased by the companies so I couldn't bring them with me. The one complaint I had was that the RPGIV ruler didn't have the edit codes (which I always have to look up because I can't remember them), so I printed a very small matrix and cut and taped it to the ruler. Voila!

Honestly I didn't use the ruler all that much but when I needed a quick reference it was very handy. And it was useful for other things as well; self-defense, hacking through the Amazon jungle. And it's always nice to have a good solid straight-edge.

TA



"Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mailman.29048.1274396075.2580.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On 21/05/2010, at 12:05 AM, Paul Nelson wrote:

Some of the forms vendors came up with their own version of the templates,
and these were stamped on steel rulers that they made available for free or
a small price.

I have at least one copy of:
o RPG Debugging Template (GX21-9129-9)
o DDS Debugging Template (GX21-7717-3)
o IBM Flowcharting Template (GZ20-8020-2)

and a steel printer spacing rule (made in U.S.A) given to me by a local printed forms paper supply company (engraved with my name as Christmas gift--oh boy!), and a steel RPG/400 rule made by Hexco Inc. I believe they still supply the RPG rules (pun intended) and they have one for RPG IV too. I never bothered with buying one of those because by then I'd moved on from needing such a thing.

See:
http://www.hexco.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?
and search for RPG.

One of these days I should scan these things and put them up somewhere (perhaps midrange Wiki) for archival and curiosity purposes.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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