On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:59:12 -0700 "Chris Kennedy" <chris(a)mainecoon.com>
writes:
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > I have a couple later Type IIs, one 1975 and one 1976 Microbus.
> >They use the same engine as a Porche 914, but, OTOH, I have heard the
914
> >decried as not a "true" Porche.
>
> Is that the 356-derived engine rather than the "standard" VW
> engine?
Mebbe. It seems like the 1.8L+ engines were of Porche origin,
while the smaller ones were stock VeeDub units.
> It's true, most people don't think of 914's as "real" Porsches,
> except in the 2.7 and 916 variants, which used 911 engines. I'm
obviously
> guilty of that, since I didn't even consider the 914 (or the 924,
> for that matter) when I composed my original reply :-(
Argh. You *had* to mention the 924, didn't you? Shoot, the damned
engine isn't even in the right place. It's just an Audi impersonating
(badly) a Porche.
> Then again, if it's got liquid cooling in more than its heads I
> don't tend to think of it as a "real" Porsche...
Yeh, I'll drink to that . . .
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On July 30, Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> ...this is why NASCAR is so popular... it's driver vs. driver.
I thought NASCAR was a food marketing organization.
At least, nearly every package in all the convenience stores around
here has the NASCAR logo on it.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
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> Let's see if I can help to mediate this dispute... I think what Ethan
> probably meant to say was that a Porsche is an overpriced Beetle with
> a bigger engine and a squished body, which you should be able to
> demonstrate to him the next time that he's in your area. :-) However,
> I have to agree that a Porsche is overpriced, as I've seen US cars
> with even bigger engines and special handling packages, that cost much
> less, leave Porsches in the dust at stoplights. The look on the face
> of a Porsche owner when an ancient rusting hulk of a US automobile
> embarrasses him by leaving him in the dust like that is quite funny to
> observe. ROFL!!!
Both the Porsche (911 Carrera 4) and the Chevy Corvette can pul in
excess of one g-force laterally.... however, somebody makes a car
that can pull 2.5G! I saw it in a chart, but can't recall which it
is...
at any rate, few people have the skills to operate a vehicle at
one-G-lateral, so the comparison may need to involve drivers
with comparable skills...
...this is why NASCAR is so popular... it's driver vs. driver.
-dq
On July 30, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > > Hardly... a BMW has that large finny thing in the front that serves no
> > > purpose in a Beetle. A Porche is an overpriced Beetle.
> >
> > About the only things that a Porsche and a VW have in common are
> > ancestors that were designed by engineering teams led by the same
> > individual.
>
> I have a couple later Type IIs, one 1975 and one 1976 Microbus. They use
> the same engine as a Porche 914, but, OTOH, I have heard the 914 decried
> as not a "true" Porche.
They're not. They're awfully cute, though.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD
On Jul 30, 9:39, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:09:10AM -0400, Bill Pechter wrote:
> > IIRC -- it's a modified Helvetica... The original was pretty
> > much a kind of wood-cut block thing that looked more like
> > Futura then Helvetica. Then came the blue helvetica thing with
> > the squarish dots on the i's.
> > Then they paid big money for the maroon move and rounted i's.
>
> Anybody know of a *computer* (e.g., Mac or PC, TrueType or such)
> version of this font? This was my original reason for asking, and
> I would *love* to be able to replace some of the logos on some of
> my equipment that is old and peeling off.. Mostly the rounded
> pdp11 logos.
There won't be a complete computer-based version of the font, because, like
most logos, it's been modified from a standard font, and only some of the
characters will have been created. The original is Futura, but the
ascenders and descenders are modified. If you want to see a PostScript
version of some logos, I did some a while back for pdp11.org, and you can
find them at http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/ as the pdp*.ps files.
The one called pdp11_34.ps is an accurate rendition of one from my 11/34,
though I can't recall whether I checked it against the panel or one of the
manuals (probably the manuals). I should have a d|i|g|i|t|a|l one
somewhere, too, but based on the later almost-Helvetica font.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
> Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I saw *six* Chevy Vega models this weekend... at least, I think
> > *one* of them was a Cosworth...
>
> Wow. the last time I saw a Cosworth Vega was in 1980. It was a
> surprising car -- almost as surprising as the Vega I encountered
> that someone had wedged a 350 into -- a car which, thanks to the Vega's
> corrosion problems, folded in half one day when the owner put her foot
> in it coming off the line one afternoon...
We had one of those conversions running around town... but the owner
claimed it was a 454... he *had* beaten on the fenderwells for some
reasons or another...
But it had to have Whilly bars.... *way* too much torque!
-dq
> So, here's the question. If I were a purchaser of an Altair in 1977,
> which printer would I have purchased? What control code would it have
> interpreted? Were the early printers sophisticated enough to recognize
> "bold", "underline" or "italic"?
The only certainty I can think of is Control-L (FF) == FormFeed,
e.g. top-of-form.
In '77, you got underline by backing up the carriage and putting
underlines underneath the text you'd just printed... you got boldface
by backing up the carriage and reprinting what you'd printed.
Italics required an minimum 80 proof software upgrade of the operator...
<hic!>
-dq
At 08:28 AM 7/30/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Does it (PDP-5) work, Chuck?
Its one of those, "It worked when I turned it off in 1995." Things. I've
been getting around to bringing it back to life for a while now.
--Chuck
I have a 30 metre length of thicknet (10base5) with screw on fittings at
each end and a vampire tap in the middle. As the cable gets dragged
around from LUG fest to LUG fest, I expect the vampire tap to eventually
fail and damage the cable.
So, I am looking for someone (preferrably) in Sydney, Australia) who is
able to break the cable in half and fit new screw fittings.
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