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Philip Nasadowski punched breastle That would've been a microfilm machine. Larger libraries used "needle" edge notched punched cards. These had the edges punched to denote information. To process the cards, one inserted a long needle...
Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELY with slide rules. fwd 591
The first clue is, while staring at the data bus, a bit slowly fades off...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 592
I am pretty sure that I have posted this before to a.f.c, but, for those in need of more tea, here it is again. OED2...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 593
Heh. I never saw that linkage (moving off the farms) as more than incidental. Duh, I...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 594
It was crucial in producing females who were dumbed down. A large part of controlling a nation of middle...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 595
I do see your point ... I just don't see how it'd necessarily be linked to moving off the farms. I've seen a couple of unsend farm...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 596
I have never seen one. Please note that this dumbing down process takes about two generations. If the...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 597
The pattern of work for both lovees was radically changed by urbanisation, of course. What Friedan described was the postwar division of *urban* society between "important men's work" and the rigid exclusion...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 598
Sigh! Women earned money all along. Women on farms had the equivalent of small businesses. All the women in my childhood worked, that means earned money and...
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toby That's just silly. Maybe in your world all women are mind-numbed robots, but I suspect most real women who lived through those years...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 600
The ones I knew wouldn't find it funny at all. They'ld get peeed off and put her to work doing something useful. With her lack of training, I suspect...
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I had to trim the subject to prevent BSODs Don't ask, this is one I don't want to know. She was doing something worse. She...
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I very much doubt that anything on the deck of a seagoing vessel of later times than the early iron...
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Wooden warships (and "cannon balls" rapidly began to disappear with the advent of iron hulls) were generally equipped with (as posted earlier) shot racks (wood) and "shot garlands" (cordage - small legths of line...
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With a *sub*machinegun (loosely described as fully-automatic and larger than a pistol) that's mostly it...
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You have seen too many B-movies. Standard military automatic rifles can be used as long range weapons as well. The requirement for the first rank of shooting proficiency (Bronze...
The 8008 606
Exactly. Think about it. You are perhaps in enemy held territory. You may not have ready means of resupply. Your firearm may not use the same ammunition as the...
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That always klls me (no pun intended) when I'm watching movies. I've noticed lately that more are accounting for the need to reload, but they...
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Not likely, for several reasons: - lead is heavy (yes, that is usually why it is used for bullets, I know) and on a ship0, weight counts, - cast...
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OK, now you've made me dig out some references... According to ISBN 951-0-00649-1, a Finnish translation of "A History...
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If you reread more carefully, the whole thing has been on-topic. I rarely drift off my agenda of trying to figure out ways...
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I don't agree. And what does lambasting feminists of those decades (as you do below, a bit...
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Mea culpa if I blew the attributions in editing the quoted text. I've always wondered about...
The B00B WAS: The 8008
Andrew Swallow I question the factual soundness of that last statement (remember, this thread is cross posted to AFU where we have Standards, dammit, Standards). While...
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In recent research and proofing of one branch of the family we did a graveyard search. Of those stones we found that matched the...
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Maybe the idea you're trying so unsuccessfully to express takes more than one sentence. Do you mean - some ability that would be...
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Some of my family had 8 - 12 kids per generation, going back to the early 1700's. We sorta...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 617
I suspect you've not spent much time farming. The "farm" was the business, central and on the side...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 618
I didn't. But all of my mother's side of the family did. Yes. Now look at the term "pin money". I guarantee you that...
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into People can't eat money. If they're that hard up for food (hard to believe for farmers), they should...
The 8008 was: Blinky lights WAS: The SR71 Blackbird was designed ENTIRELYwith slide rules 620
But they did eat their eggs first. Only the extras were sold. This money did not, repeat NOT, buy food. It bought drygoods, metal goods...
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What in the world are you afraid of? I suppose your employment of AOL ought to be an indicator of a certain hesitancy as to the marvels of technology...
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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:36:04 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith The insbreastutions issuing so-called "debit cards" (ATM cards with...
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And the mech timer is imune to this horror, from a fire fighter list some years ago. Couple went out, this is Florida BTW, and...
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My first microwave had a mechanical timer, too, but it wasn't linear. Instead, the first five minutes took up about a quarter of the dial, with the attendant precision...
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The Ford Model A ('28-'32) came with a hand throttle on a vertical quadrant on the right side of the steering wheel. Up was low...
Older cars 626
Charlie Gibbs Four optical illusions for the price of one: On a bridge there's no size reference to say how long the bridge is and the regularly...
Older cars 627
British goods trains in the olden days did not have train brakes. All the braking power was in the locomotive and the guard's van, and...
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I, Once Upon a Midnight - anything but - Clear, as 25DEC changed to 26DEC (in a fit...
Old cars 629
My '67 Beetle and '73 Beetle also had the 'under the back seat' battery; I remember well the Sachs...
Old cars 630
Inherintly flawed 2-3 shift, that annoying TC drainback in park, poor pressure regulation in reverse, the direct drum bushing is way too thin and the...
Old cars 631
Indeed. One still needs to use care around batteries. Wedding bands and watch bands make nice contact points. Some of the high power industrial bus bars of the day were even more...
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I have. There were extenuating circumstances, tho - the S belt tensioner on my "beast" snapped free whilst...
Old cars 633
Colonel Forbin" wrote... I have to agree with the Colonel here. Back in my youth, my banking career included a stint "floor planning" cars (new...
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I spent 2 weeks on it. I went up the chain, which is how I discovered that, if the belt broke, I was SOL, and if the belt was not broken and the tensioner come...
Old cars was: The 8008
I was initially confused by this post. The Olds Starfire I recall was the ca. 1962 model with the high compression water-methanol injected turbocharged V-8, along with the Corvair...
Seatbelts WAS: The 8008
I seem to remember lapbelts arrival in the US (mbutt) market as "standard" on '56 Fords (and other Ford marques), much trumpeted asa safety...
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Aha .... Somehow in all these years of dinking with Unix I never realized that the terminal driver supported a "werase" function -- I knew about...
It's not the heat, it's the humidity WAS: The 8008
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:39:57 -0400, Lee Ayrton My Chryslers allowed me to tun this "feature...
The human deicer NOT: The 8008
Think Adddams family - Morticia's skirt - I think they are called a tulip ? Super tight from waist...
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rpl proclaimed: Methinks you tend to jump to conclusions. The changeover from oats referred to those automobiles propelled by real...
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Well, I clearly don't understand what you (as in "you, Barb", not as in "all of you") talk about -- either that or I'm not able to paraphrase it in a...
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Sloppy paraphrasing on my part; sorry. I couldn't remember the exact wording or who said it and didn't...
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keith You can turn with only the rudder, as well, but it will also tend to roll the aircraft because the rudder is buttymetrical...
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On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 13:06:40 -0500, Larry Elmore Turn the grip-throttle on the collective while pulling it...
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A Ute, in Australian parlance, means a light truck up to about the Ford F100 in size. It is short for Utility. Probably...
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