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
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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
> 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
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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
[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
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> 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
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> -----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");
'
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
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>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
>
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Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net
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Forwarded for the attention of DownUnder listmembers; for possible
rescue / cross-pollenization purposes.
J.
PS: Huw Davies.. is this near you? Macquarie University...
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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
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Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 20:19:58 +1100
From: Peter Fraser <2pjfraser(a)optushome.com.au>
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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
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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
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