... 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...
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...
... 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...
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 ... /...
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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... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Marion Moon jayhawk999@..., sliderulenut, says, "One of my favorites, now mostly missing, are mechanical or electronic differential analyzers." One of my...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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