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31 Dec 2001

On December 31, John Allain wrote:
...
  I remember in the interval graduation+(1..10) I used
 Integration only once, and it was to calculate the position
 on a VHS tape given its spindle speed(s).
 Nowadays every VCR does real time display.  Wonder
 why it took so long to happen?  Imean it was only a 1-line
 polynomial. 
  Yes, but could it have been done back then without increasing the
cost of the hardware very much?  It probably would've involved a small
microprocessor.  Hmm, could such a thing be accomplished with a lookup
table in a ROM?

     -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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