... / o o oo o o o o oo o o oo o ooooo / / o o oo o oooo o oo oo o / / o o ooo...
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cadet1620
Dec 2, 2007 12:28 am
... The Yahoo Groups mail reader sure mangled that! Let's try again... ... Extra credit for decoding the tape. --Mark [Non-text portions of this message have...
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Mike Markowski
mike_markowski
Dec 2, 2007 2:10 am
Mark, Nice ascii art! Did you write a program or do this manually? HERE IS ANOTHER OBSOLETE TECHNOLOGY!<cr> I decoded manually but halfway through was...
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Mark Armbrust
cadet1620
Dec 2, 2007 5:31 am
... I wrote a program to do this a long time ago (timestamp on the source is 5/9/97) and a companion program that does punch cards. I just remembered them...
33990
marion moon
sliderulenut
Dec 2, 2007 5:31 am
Not slide rules but still interesting: http://www.vcalc.net/cu.htm marion moon...
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Gary Flom
gsflom1
Dec 2, 2007 5:48 am
Very good ! Gary Flom ... From: Mark Armbrust To: sliderule@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2007 12:37 PM Subject: Re: SR Prob : Solve for x ... /...
33992
sliderule@yahoogroups...
Dec 2, 2007 8:52 am
Greetings, There are a lot of things we do on this list which may not be obvious to newcomers, and some of us veterans need reminders from time to time, too....
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Mike Yancey
myanceytx
Dec 3, 2007 6:06 pm
... This one just today: http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/03/atandt-to-hang-up-its-pay-phones/ (AT&T to hang up on Pay Phones...) I can remember when they were...
33994
Steven Weinberg
eagurulemming
Dec 3, 2007 7:28 pm
I'll say this, nobody here cried when we replaced the Diazo machines! You practically needed a respirator to enter the room we kept them in. BTW, has anybody...
33995
Steven Weinberg
eagurulemming
Dec 3, 2007 7:29 pm
My observation is that most CW these days is done by the software you mention. Whether the current no-code licenses are as good idea is, I suspect, a topic...
33996
marion moon
sliderulenut
Dec 4, 2007 4:27 am
One of my favorites, now mostly missing, are mechanical or electronic differential analyzers. I wanted to use one to simulate the Adcap Mk 48 torpedo in the...
33997
Lennart Börjeson
lenborje
Dec 4, 2007 4:28 pm
måndagen den 3 december 2007 skrev Steven Weinberg: ... Change that to "They are...". Fountain pens are available at every stationary shop I know. Not only...
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Ronald C. McConnell
rcmccnnll
Dec 4, 2007 9:48 pm
Marion Moon jayhawk999@..., sliderulenut, says, "One of my favorites, now mostly missing, are mechanical or electronic differential analyzers." One of my...
33999
wshawlee2
Dec 5, 2007 2:12 am
I couldn't resist, these were so cool, I had to buy a big pile of them for the Slide Rule Universe. Here is the L/L rule many people here have discussed,...
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Ronald C. McConnell
rcmccnnll
Dec 5, 2007 4:22 pm
My handwriting _used_to_be pretty good when I still used a fountain pen up until maybe 20 years ago. It degraded with ball point pens, came back a bit with...
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Steven Weinberg
eagurulemming
Dec 5, 2007 4:31 pm
The Pelican Futur is a very nice school pen. So is the Lamy Safari. I quite like fountain pens myself (today is "Esterbrook Type J day" for me). In US,...
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Philippe Deau
pdeau
Dec 5, 2007 4:33 pm
I confirm what Lennart says. For intance here in France it's mandatory to use fountain pen at school. and you can buy it in any supermarket. It can be very...
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Ray Brohinsky
onlyocelot
Dec 6, 2007 3:00 am
I fear feeding an off-topic like this, but I am a fountain-pen using lutenist with a small problem. My FP of choice is the Sheaffer Calligraphy pen (fine...
34004
Bill Robinson
gerwkr
Dec 6, 2007 6:30 am
Ray: I have used Sheaffer pens, bladder and cartridge, for almost 65 years and have never had this problem when on the ground. Have now used a cartridge...
34005
clarkmccoy2
Dec 6, 2007 1:34 pm
Announcing THE OUGHTRED SOCIETY'S NEW WINTER MEETING You are invited to attend the new Oughtred Society Winter Meeting, which will be held Saturday, February...
34006
edchamberlain
Dec 6, 2007 3:56 pm
A few years ago there was a great discussion of "prefered numbers" on the ISRG. That was followed by a comprehensive paper by Simon A.M. van der Salm in the...
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Ray Brohinsky
onlyocelot
Dec 6, 2007 3:56 pm
Do any of you aerodynamics-trained folk know how much the pressure changes on modern aircraft are, and how that compares to pressure changes on the ground?...
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Brian Ronald
mdisdhb432487
Dec 6, 2007 3:56 pm
... You shouldn't expect a fountain pen to leak. I've had cheap calligraphy pens leak, but that's because the interchangeable nibs weren't well made. I have...
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Bill Harris
bill_harris_fs
Dec 6, 2007 3:56 pm
... Hash: SHA1 ... I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here previously, but Lipka's Graphical and Mechanical Computation contains a seeming wealth of material...
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Ray Brohinsky
onlyocelot
Dec 6, 2007 4:27 pm
The item number returns a not found message. When I did find the auction, the number listed was 200180539305. I plugged that back into advanced search, just to...
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Ray Brohinsky
onlyocelot
Dec 6, 2007 4:27 pm
The 1921 edition of this book is on google books, ...
34012
Peter Holland
phollandde
Dec 6, 2007 5:15 pm
Hello, on our site of the German language slide rule collectors you'll find an article about prefered numbers ('Normzahlen'). Even if you don't speak German...
34013
wshawlee2
Dec 6, 2007 6:45 pm
For those of you wanting to bundle the new K+E book by Joe Soper (produced by the Oughtred Society) with other things, the slide rule universe now has them in...
34014
dodecatheon.meadia
dodecatheon....
Dec 6, 2007 6:52 pm
... What I understand from the folks here is that most planes are currently pressurized to the equivalent of around 8000 feet. I just verified that figure on...
34015
marion moon
sliderulenut
Dec 6, 2007 6:52 pm
Several off-topic subjects but they may be of interest. Fountain pens must be designed to operate in high altitude aircraft. An interesting article can be...
