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Author: Larry ElmoreLarry Elmore
Date: Aug 31, 2008 03:04
Charlton Wilbur wrote:
> Larry Elmore (LE) writes:
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>> [Webbiting] *is* accurate terminology -- for Barb. It may not
>> mean anything to anyone else, but it means no less and no more
>> than what she wants it to mean. Like my small nephew's nonsense
>> word "gurglesnoof".
>
> The qualitative difference is that your small nephew does not use
> "gurglesnoof" as part of a problem description, and then become irate
> when other people do not ascribe the same meaning to it that he does.
Actually, he does, and he does become irate because no one else knows
what the f*** gurglesnoof is. I suspect that's half the fun of his
dopey game.
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Author: hancock4hancock4
Date: Aug 29, 2008 19:59
I noticed the bitsavers site added some APL manuals. That brought
back memories. Bad ones.
I had a college course in which APL was part of it. I duly bought the
textbook, I believe authored by Ken Iverson. I duly sat down at an
APL equipped Selectric and logged on using my new account.
That's as far as I got.
Suffice it to say I did not understand APL. Any of it. I strongly
doubt I ever got even the simplest program to work, not even an "Hello
World".
I remember the instructor writing a program that calculated prime
numbers using maybe three or four Greek characters. I didn't
understand any of it.
After the class I sold the undeciperable textbook and never looked at
APL again.
Today, I guess somewhere some math types are happily Greeking away
writing enormously complex logic in only a few characters.
I could understand how _mathmaticians_ would like the language. But
did anyone else like the language?
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Author:
Date: Aug 29, 2008 09:45
For Sale: A Shugart SA800-2 8-Inch Floppy Drive from the Altair and
IMSAI 70's Microcomputer Era.
115 volt 60 Hz operation. Excellent, near mint condition. Believed to
be working but I have no way to verify and thus will be
sold as-is.
Picture: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/mnowlen/shugart-sa800-2.html
$25 plus shipping.
Packaged weight will be around 18 pounds.
Email reply please,
Mike Nowlen
mnowlen@ comcast.net
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Author: RobertBRobertB
Date: Aug 28, 2008 22:52
Happy Labor Day, everybody!
In September we forego our usual club meeting
in favor of the annual "picnic" dinner! This year
the picnic dinner will be on Tuesday, September 9,
5 p.m. at
Brooks Ranch Restaurant
4131 S. Chestnut Ave.
Fresno, CA
(559) 485-6951
If you are in the area, bring yourself, your family,
your friends, and know that the club is paying for
the food. Various knick-knack door prizes will be
given away.
Relax and enjoy,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
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Author: siddsidd
Date: Aug 28, 2008 21:15
toby wrote:
snip re philips DS714, tanx
the last sentence of the article from 2005
"Isaksen will be deploying the Stratus servers to the field in the
middle of next month but doesn’t expect they will go into production
until the first of next year."
lil late, innit ?
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Author: Anne & Lynn WheelerAnne & Lynn Wheeler
Date: Aug 28, 2008 08:00
sebastian@WELTON.DE (Sebastian Welton) writes:
> I have an original IBM Thinkpad. This is a small brown pocket notepad with
> the word 'THINK' printed on the front and 'IBM' on the back (pn 520-6430 nad
> 520-6431) still with the original paper pad inside but I think I'll keep it as its
> quite amusing showing people.
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Author:
Date: Aug 27, 2008 14:13
On 2008-08-26, John Varela verizon.net> wrote:
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> That's me second from the left, pretending to be an air traffic
> controller. The KSRs can be plainly seen. They used 6-bit code,
> however.
If it was 6-bit code it wasn't Baudot. And that would make the
machines Model 29s, which were originally developed for the 6-bit
Teletypesetter code but didn't sell in that market. So then some
were made in a 6-bit IBM BCD code; but I was led to believe that
all of those were built for Bell System internal use only. But then
I supposed Mitre could have got them if they wanted them.
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Author:
Date: Aug 27, 2008 13:59
> For a great many years the five-bit Baudot code was for data
> transmission. When computers or tab machines would communicate, data
> would be punched on cards, converted to Baudot tape, transmitted, and
> then the process reversed. IBM had a machine to convert from Baudot
> to Hollerith and vice versa (I assume other vendors did as well).
IBM also had card-to-card transceivers without going through Baudot.
The advantage of going through Baudot was that you could use regular
telegraph circuits, including regenerative repeaters if necessary...
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Author: RobertBRobertB
Date: Aug 27, 2008 10:59
---------- Forwarded Message -----------------
From: nigel parker
Date: Wed, August 27, 2008 8:08 am
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Commodore Free Issue 22
Issue 22 of Commodore Free Magazine is available
to download in TEXT / PDF / HTML / SEQ and
Commodore 64 disk image.
CONTENTS
GENERAL NEWS
uIEC Status Update / INFORMATION
TUTORIALS
In the Beginning, part 7
Making Music with DMC
INTERVIEWS
Stefano Tognon (SIDIN Magazine)
CLUB NEWS
C.C.C. Membership form
C.C.C. Membership Club rules
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