Tape Drive Capstans

[Jacob Ritorto]

Watch out Tony, you're getting infected with my machine's mysterious zeroes
bug!  Dropping bits and stuff!

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Peter Coghlan <cctalk at beyondthepale.ie>
wrote:

> David Griffith wrote:
>
>
>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, tony duell wrote:
>>
>>  On 29 January 2015 at 21:45, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> > > And then store them in the dark in a vacuum at 0 degrees kelvin?
>>>> > >
>>>> > No, the outgassing of volatiles would be a problem...
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> Technically there should be no out gassing at 0 Kelvin.... ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah yes, but then there are the 3 laws of thermodynamics which have been
>>> expressed as :
>>> 1st : You can't win, you can only break even
>>>
>>> 2nd : You can only break even at absolute zero
>>>
>>> 3rd : You can't get to absolute zerp
>>>
>>                                   ^^^^
>>
>> I'm going to add "zerp" to my list of synonyms for "zero".
>>
>>
> Maybe zerp is one of the zeros in ones compliment, the other being zern?
>
>
>> --
>> David Griffith
>> dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
>>
>> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>>
>>
> (Some years ago, a colleague told me I was confusing the customers by not
> putting my replies at the top.  Thanks for providing a nice logical
> summary of
> the subject to show to him instead of my having to figure out how to
> penetrate
> an upside down mind :-)
>
> Regards,
> Peter Coghlan.
>