test-drb January 2002

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by mhstein＠usa.net

I recharge primary alkalines all the time; roughly doubles their life, although useful time before they need recharging drops substantially. Can't let them run down too far though, gotta recharge 'em while there's still life left, sort of the opposite of NiCads.. mike -------------------Original Message------------------- From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) Subject: Re: Lithium/Lithium-ion batteries <snip> Incidentally, another statement often made which is also incorrect is 'Do not recharge alkaline batteries'. It's intended to apply to the primary alkaline batteries like Duracells. But, of course, the NiCd (and other) batteries use an alkaline electrolyte and those are designed to be recharged. - -tony

22 years, 7 months

Burroughs & adding machines

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: John Lawson <jpl15(a)panix.com> > I believe that in actual fact, Burroughs, after a few years of > night-and-day work on his mechanical calculator design, including tossing > one finished prototype out a second story window in frustration, patented > the *application* of a hydraulic damper to the actuator crank. His > problem was that if the actuator lever was pulled down by the operator > too quickly, the machine would jam very destructively. This 'bug' very > nearly killed the product in the early market. He added what amounts to a > small shock absorber to the crank lever, slowing it down enough so the > machine could operate efficiently but not be overdriven. Then, there was > no stopping it and the rest is well-known. I certainly don't mean to question your word, but can you provide specific references? Material published by William S. Burroughs (references available upon request) indicate that the problem was that *exactly* the proper amount of pressure had to be applied to the actuator lever in order to produce a correct result, which was nearly impossible. The hydraulic piston ensured that the same force was delivered to the machine no matter how much pressure was applied (as long as it was enough to depress the lever). This gave the Burroughs machine a huge advantage over competing products (several of which existed at the time and all had the same problem), and allowed it to capture the market. > Now, just a sec, I wanna check my spelling, grammar, syntax, > orthography, references, style, Flesch Rating, .... No shit, this list is a real shark tank these days when it comes to precision in expression ;>) Glen 0/0

22 years, 7 months

Moon Patrol?

by fernande＠internet1.net

Hello, Awhile back I bought a copy of Atari Moon Patrol for the PC on Ebay. The disk doesn't work, and I can't fix it with Norton Disk Doctor. Does anyone have a copy they could send to me? I looked on the internet and all I can find is roms for emulation use. Chad Fernandez Michigan, USA

22 years, 7 months

Burroughs & adding machines (was Re: Language and English)

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

[John Lawson wrote] > > I believe that in actual fact, Burroughs, after a few years of > > night-and-day work on his mechanical calculator design, including > > tossing one finished prototype out a second story window in frustration, > > patented the *application* of a hydraulic damper to the actuator crank. [John Allain replied] > This is an interesting and worthy topic. > Just enter "William Seward Burroughs" into a search engine to > verify what John said. That's the name of both the calculator > inventor and the writer, but the writer seldom used his middle > name, making it a good search string. I just did that and came up with this site http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/17.html which contradicts Mr. Lawson's "destructive jam" theory (no offense to John L.) and supports the ideas I put forth in my previous post. Glen -- William S. Burroughs fan since 1973 0/0

22 years, 7 months

Movie making and distributed robotics

by Golemancd＠aol.com

never heard of qnx. will check it out

22 years, 7 months

Movie making and distributed robotics

by acme_ent＠bellsouth.net

> From: Golemancd(a)aol.com > the idea is to have the robot take care of itself. just refer to the master os > for references and instructions. master os will be used like a server. > server of info, directions, traffic directions , scripts, etc. like a > co-ordinator. > to direct everything that is going on. > for example like a forman on a building site. > the forman gives everyone their job and they go to it. > if there are any questions you refer back to him. > or when you are finished your job, you refer to him > and he gives you another one. > and the forman monitors everything in progress. > if he sees something that isnt going correctly, > he may step in and give other instructions. QNX is a perfect solution for this since it's real-time and has great interprocess communication built in. Or, maybe you'd prefer to cook up an OS from scratch. Glen 0/0

22 years, 7 months

Any AMIGA users?

by csmith＠amdocs.com

> -----Original Message----- > From: Don Maslin [mailto:donm@cts.com] > I am unaware of such a thing as a hard sectored drive. It is a > controller function. So the sector holes are in exactly the same place as the index hole? > Change the controller card - and the operating system to > support it. It > has been done. I imagined it may have... especially with what I've seen done to a Northstar. :) > > Actually you might be able to get by with it in a high density > > drive, given some way of attaching the disk to the "spindle" of the > > drive, and provided that you didn't really want to keep the disk > > anyway (or possibly the drive!), and if you were willing to write > > mind-numbingly useless special-purpose software. Otherwise, I hear > > that CompatiCard will drive an 8" floppy ;) > As will a conventional AT FDC. Trouble is, most of them won't > read/write single-density (FM). However, some of the XT class clone > controllers with an onboard BIOS and selectable BIOS address > will drive > an 8" drive and do both FM and MFM. I think it was Fred in a previous post who said that CompatiCard would indeed do FM, but it's early and I'm too lazy to check right now. :) Regards, Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '

22 years, 7 months

Fwd: COMPUTER

by cfandt＠netsync.net

Folks, Could anybody help Mr. Heaton with his search for info? Contact him directly, of course, at "Bob Heaton <wb4jpz1(a)strato.net>". Thanks much , Chris NNNN -- -- >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 >Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 08:16:55 -0500 >Reply-To: Bob Heaton <wb4jpz1(a)strato.net> >Sender: Boat Anchor Owners and Collectors List ><BOATANCHORS(a)LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV> >From: Bob Heaton <wb4jpz1(a)strato.net> >Subject: COMPUTER >To: BOATANCHORS(a)LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV > >Higuys > > Have just come into posession of a couple (2) really nice little computers. > They are basically portable, but require 115 ac AND a telephone line. > Each is in a nice carrying case, and has a fold down key board. > > The ID plate says > INFORMER computer terminal > model 207 102 V.22 P/N 990-0KI VO-20 > Pala Drive > Garden Grove CA 92641 USA > 714-891-1112 >Attemps via snail-mail and twisted pair have been un-sucessful ,seems like >they just dropped off the face of the earth. Both units power up...pushing >buttons from F1 thru F24 display menu screens and programing formats. > >Any one have an idea where I could find a manual, of information on these >guys ? Sure would like to get them >set up to do something useful . > >Please E-mail to: >Bob Heaton >wb4jpz1(a)strato.net > >----------------------------------------------------------- >This list is a public service of the City of Tempe, Arizona >----------------------------------------------------------- > >Subscription control - http://www.tempe.gov/lists/control.asp?listATANCHORS >To post - BOATANCHORS(a)LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV >Archives - http://interactive.tempe.gov/archives/BOATANCHORS.html Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/

22 years, 7 months

[GreenKeys] TTY stuff available (fwd)

by jpl15＠panix.com

Forwarded for the attention of DownUnder listmembers; for possible rescue / cross-pollenization purposes. J. PS: Huw Davies.. is this near you? Macquarie University... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 13:09:06 +1100 (EST) From: Ray Robinson <robinson(a)shlrc.mq.edu.au> Reply-To: greenkeys(a)mailman.qth.net To: greenkeys(a)mailman.qth.net Subject: [GreenKeys] TTY stuff available Hi Gang, Just got this notice of some stuff available. Available Melbourne Asutralia. I don't need it. Perhaps I'll just ask for the picture atpes to sent to RTTYART. Regards RAy vk2ilv ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:19:58 +1100 From: Peter Fraser <2pjfraser(a)optushome.com.au> X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robinson(a)shlrc.mq.edu.au Subject: TTY stuff Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ray I'm cleaning out my garage and I have some TTY stuff I just don't want any more. [snip] I have: Siemens Model 100 with tape punch and reader. I can't remember if it works. May be good for parts. VZ300 computer and RTTY modem kit. Lots of pictures on punch tape. Motor driven tape winder (good for collecting tape as it comes out of the machine. Hand driven tape winder. 3 or 4 rolls of tape to suit M100. Some rolls of paper to suit M100 Let me know if you can think of a home for it otherwise it all goes to the tip. 73 Peter VK3ZPF ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- Regards Ray Robinson VK2ILV Electronic Engineer robinson(a)shlrc.mq.edu.au Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre 612-98508765 ph School of Linguistics and Psychology 612-98509199 fax Macquarie University North Ryde 2109 Sydney NSW AUSTRALIA web page http://www.shlrc.mq.edu.au/~robinson _______________________________________________ GreenKeys mailing list GreenKeys(a)mailman.qth.net http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/greenkeys

22 years, 7 months

Windows 3.11 disks

by bfranchuk＠jetnet.ab.ca

I had posted earlier about needing 3.11 disks for a friend. The said 'free' computer seems to have ran out of 'magic smoke' and is no longer running. I want to thank everybody for the help with the 3.11 disks. -- Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu * www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html

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