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Ken Smith

Jan 1, 1970
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Spehro Pefhany said:
You had an acoustic coupler? We had to whistle each bit into the
telephone and keep track of the framing in our heads.

You had a telephone, *luxury*. We had to enscribe the bits onto clay
tablets and send them by mule-train.
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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I like red, also, but it won't do over 100MPH, I tried one on the
autobahn ;-)

...Jim Thompson



I've got the nice torquey 2-liter 4-cyl, which isn't feeling a bit
strained at 80 MPH, about the fastest I've tried it. Wide-open spaces
this ain't. It does blast up hills pretty well, which I do about 40
times a day. It helps that my skinny wife doesn't bog it down much,
too.

My project for the day (or more like for the summer, maybe) is
repairing our antique freight elevator. It's late 1940's vintage,
mostly wood construction, 3-floor hydraulic (using water!) This place
was a fortune-cookie factory for 50+ years, so the dirt+grease
multilayers are awesome. I'm also designing a fast-ish 1310 nm
singlemode laser driver, which is pretty simple except that the laser
needs severe drive-current temperature compensation, very nonlinear on
temp, which makes it a little interesting given the < 4 sq inch size
of the pcb.

John
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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You had a telephone, *luxury*. We had to enscribe the bits onto clay
tablets and send them by mule-train.

We just branded 1's and 0's directly on the mules.

John
 
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Roy L. Fuchs

Jan 1, 1970
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[....]
And the worst is getting into a rental car at night when it is raining and
the rear window is fogged up.

I was driving a rented Ford Exploder for this last week. When I
wanted the head lights on, I turned on the rear wiper.

I think it is becoming a safety issue. We really need a standard for
where the important switches are.

We have one. It's called rent a fucking car that you are familiar
with.

I had no option of doing that. The Ford Exploder was needed because of
the large boxes we had to carry.

That explains everything. It was a Ford.
 
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Roy L. Fuchs

Jan 1, 1970
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You had a telephone, *luxury*. We had to enscribe the bits onto clay
tablets and send them by mule-train.
Sure.

We used smoke signals, which were the first truly digital form of
communication, unless you want to count witnessed supernova events.
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
I've got the nice torquey 2-liter 4-cyl, which isn't feeling a bit
strained at 80 MPH, about the fastest I've tried it. Wide-open spaces
this ain't. It does blast up hills pretty well, which I do about 40
times a day. It helps that my skinny wife doesn't bog it down much,
too.

My project for the day (or more like for the summer, maybe) is
repairing our antique freight elevator. It's late 1940's vintage,
mostly wood construction, 3-floor hydraulic (using water!) This place
was a fortune-cookie factory for 50+ years, so the dirt+grease
multilayers are awesome. I'm also designing a fast-ish 1310 nm
singlemode laser driver, which is pretty simple except that the laser
needs severe drive-current temperature compensation, very nonlinear on
temp, which makes it a little interesting given the < 4 sq inch size
of the pcb.

John


Will you take some pictures of the elevator before, during and after
you get it running and post them on ABSE? That sounds like an
interesting project!


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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martin griffith

Jan 1, 1970
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My project for the day (or more like for the summer, maybe) is
repairing our antique freight elevator. It's late 1940's vintage,
mostly wood construction, 3-floor hydraulic (using water!) This place
was a fortune-cookie factory for 50+ years, so the dirt+grease
multilayers are awesome.
maybe you need this
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635211664,00.html

I'm also designing a fast-ish 1310 nm
singlemode laser driver, which is pretty simple except that the laser
needs severe drive-current temperature compensation, very nonlinear on
temp, which makes it a little interesting given the < 4 sq inch size
of the pcb.
That sounds like fun




martin
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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I've got the nice torquey 2-liter 4-cyl, which isn't feeling a bit
strained at 80 MPH, about the fastest I've tried it. Wide-open spaces
this ain't. It does blast up hills pretty well, which I do about 40
times a day. It helps that my skinny wife doesn't bog it down much,
too.

My project for the day (or more like for the summer, maybe) is
repairing our antique freight elevator. It's late 1940's vintage,
mostly wood construction, 3-floor hydraulic (using water!) This place
was a fortune-cookie factory for 50+ years, so the dirt+grease
multilayers are awesome. I'm also designing a fast-ish 1310 nm
singlemode laser driver, which is pretty simple except that the laser
needs severe drive-current temperature compensation, very nonlinear on
temp, which makes it a little interesting given the < 4 sq inch size
of the pcb.

John

1994-1996, in Germany, I was renting Golfs because that's what the
client would pay for.

100MPH pedal-to-the-metal is all they would do.

My last trip to Frankfurt I paid the overage and rented an Opel Vectra
so I could see how fast the big 600D's were doing... 130MPH ;-)

...Jim Thompson
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Don said:
uphill in the snow barefoot both ways.


With patches of black ice.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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Looks good. Are you going to build a "one off" computerized
elecvator control system? Maybe add a wireless remote control so you
can stop it and make it wait for you, while you're at it? ;-)

Or, John could have a design competition - whoever designs the best,
cheapest, and most reliable controller system gets the contract. ;-)
(Which probably wouldn't amount to much, since the design will have
already been done. ;-P )

Cheers!
Rich
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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Or, John could have a design competition - whoever designs the best,
cheapest, and most reliable controller system gets the contract. ;-)
(Which probably wouldn't amount to much, since the design will have
already been done. ;-P )

I was thinking of redesigning the controls with some nice modern
octal-socket plugin relays. The stuff there now has worked for 40
years or so; do you think any computer-based system could do that?

John
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
I was thinking of redesigning the controls with some nice modern
octal-socket plugin relays. The stuff there now has worked for 40
years or so; do you think any computer-based system could do that?

John


Yes, if its designed and built properly. Soldered in parts, and
protected in a nice all steel NEMA box would add to the reliability,
too. Overkill, all the way! ;-)


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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phaeton

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:22:45 -0700, Jim Thompson -snip-
repairing our antique freight elevator. It's late 1940's vintage,
mostly wood construction, 3-floor hydraulic (using water!) This place
was a fortune-cookie factory for 50+ years, so the dirt+grease
multilayers are awesome. I'm also designing a fast-ish 1310 nm
singlemode laser driver, which is pretty simple except that the laser
needs severe drive-current temperature compensation, very nonlinear on
temp, which makes it a little interesting given the < 4 sq inch size
of the pcb.

John

You live in a foshun cookee factowy?

neat! Got pics?

-phaeton
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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You live in a foshun cookee factowy?

neat! Got pics?

It was a working cookie factory when we bought it. But all the cookies
come from China now, at a fourth the price that USians can make them,
so the Louies got out of the biz and sold the building to us. We
gutted it, did all the seismic upgrades and stuff, and turned it into
an electronics thing.

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fortunecookies.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DB153FF932A05756C0A966958260


I do have some pics of the cookie machines; see a.b.s.e.

Their cookies were sure good, much better than the cheap imports.

John
 
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Ancient_Hacker

Jan 1, 1970
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John said:
Their cookies were sure good, much better than the cheap imports.

John

I see from the NYT article he sold "risque" fortune cookie messages.
Reminds me of a time a friend went to a very dull birthday party at a
restaurant, being held by some very dull and conservative folks. The
chinese restaurant supplied a bowl of fortune cookies. Unbeknownst to
all, the previous users of that bowl was a bachelot party, and someone
had added some very risque fortune cookies to the bowl. The bachelors
didnt empty out the bowl, and the restauranteurs just added some more
to the refill the bowl, so the last few straigh-laced folks showed
rather flushed faces and woudlnt read out loud their fortunes. Guess
you had to be there.
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Eric said:
Maybe in some alternate universe. Not in this one. They both use
32-bit registers and have a program counter, but there's not a lot
of similarity in any of the details beyond that.

The National Semiconductor 32000 series (originally 16000 series)
is much more VAX-like than the Motorola 68000, but is also nowhere
close to being an exact copy.


Actually, Motorola built a set of four modified 68000 CPU chips for
DEC to update their VAX CPU. I had the press release, but lost it along
with some other old papers during the hurricanes a few years ago.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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