25 Sep
1998
25 Sep
'98
3:23 a.m.
At 13:52 23-09-98 -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I figured it was some sort of stiff sidewall. Must be a real b**ch to
install and remove from the rims. I know what it's like to deal with
mounting 6-ply sidewall tires used on small commercial vehicles not having
split rims.
At 23:08 22-09-98 -0400, you wrote:
Special sidewalls that are stiff enough to resist being folded over and
cut by the rim or rubbed thin by the consant compression/expansion of
rolling under the weight of the car and back out It's difficult to
explain without diagrams. No, I will be letting the air of your car's
tires.
Oh no you won't ;) I'll get a set of those new Michelin Zero Pressure
tires (ones which the TV ad shows a 3/4" hole being drilled in the sidewall
and the car driving away; 55 MPH for 50 miles... [howzat work anyway?]) The pressure monitoring system, BTW, is
required so that you, the driver, know that you have a flat and not to
drive on it too fast or too far.
Pressure monitor? How does the driver get that feedback? Obviously there
would need to be information sent to the driver as to pressure failure.
> >I know little about 1103s, but they were indeed built for number crunching
> >for people that could not afford a big S/360. The 1103 is related to the
> >1800, used for process control (leading to the S/7).
>
> You must have been tired at 23:08 when you wrote this :) It's an IBM
1130.
Wasn't there an 1103, too? I remember being confused while talking
computers with someone in college - he was thinking of an IBM 1103,
while I was thinking of a DEC LSI 11/03. Maybe _he_ was confused.
I do not know for sure if there was an IBM 1103 (anybody?) but for sure
there was an 1130 (I'm not _that_ old ;). Yeah, imagine the confusion when
throwing around 1103, 11/03 and 1130 numbers during a discussion or
whatever especially with non-technical persons.
I never got to program it, but the EE department at OSU had an 1130 with
a couple of RK05-style disks in a forgotten lab when I was a college
freshman. ISTR it was short, but wide, being built into a desk.
ISTR the same. There was a panel across the back of the desk-like cabinet
with switches/lights and a Selectric typewriter set in the center as the
local system programming I/O. I vaguely recall one day the IBM CE was in to
do maintenance/repairs and the door at the right side of the 'desk' was
open to show off the 32k core memory area.
--Chris
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