19 Nov
2003
19 Nov
'03
9:58 a.m.
On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 15:16, Joe wrote:
Umm, it's just dynamical calcs, same as dynamite; a nice circular slide
rule came with the EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS book. All that's unique to
explosive driven metal systems (my favorite WWII euphemism; google it;
first hit :-) is fallout issues (sic), any calcs in that direction are
pure fantasy anyhoo.
Bomb porn, is what this is. My friend Edgar & I found those crater calc
porn magcards for HP calculators in Los Alamos, once. I'm sure he still
has them.
tomj
Was it in the PPC ROM manual? If so I have it. I wasn't into games so
I'm not sure.
I was a member too - but I have long forgotten my number.
I think you're right. As you said, it's been a lot of years!
It was. It's an incredible machine but the documentation for it
really bites! The 49 would have been a best seller if they'd had even fair
documentation. They should have hired someone like Richard Nelson or some
of the old PPC bunch and wrote something like the PPC ROM manual go with
the ROM.
BTW does anyone here know much about the PPC ROM 2? I had one (in
EPROM) but don't know much about it. Also had some others that I couldn't
find much about such as an Assembler ROM. It might have been named "David's
Assembler". Or maybe that was two different ROMs, I just don't remember
any more.
Joe
On Sunday,
November 16, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Joe wrote:
Not that I know of. It's just very tightly controlled. It's frightening
to punch in some numbers and look at the effects (blast effects, crater
sizes, dosage, fallout rates, mortality rates, etc) of different type/size
weapons.
I had the only (Nuclear) Weapon Effects ROM
outside of
the military
Pretty cool, it's not classified?? (see <http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/we/>
and a pair of the
Military Engineering ROMs. Other than those, the coolest ROM that I
had
was the Astro ROM. It's a special surveying ROM that lets you take
extremely accurate readings and/or over extremely long distances. I
sold it
to a group that is re-surveying the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.
Believe
it or not there are no accurate surveys of the place and they've even
managed to lose a few tombs due to the poor maps of the area.
Has anyone a copy of my :Labrinth: program? I think it needed the PPC
rom
and the first prompt asked for the name of the "Dungeon?" (it used the
name to create some constants.. these were combined with the xyz
location
of the player to actually display doors/walls/arches All the stairs are
at 0,0 IIRC. Is anyone
here a sometime member of PPC?
Yeap (#12114 IIRC) and it's short lived successor HPPC (IIRC). I
was
Wasn't that CHUU? HPPC I think, is alive and well and meeting in the UK. still active in the HP user's group up till a
couple of years ago.
They gave everyone there a free HP-49.
Nice..