Where can I buy a large analogue meter?

Ever fired a gun this small?

When I was a grad student at Ginzton Lab, Grinnell Systems donated a brand new video processor to our group. It was about a 5-foot rack, with an all-wirewrap backplane. Pretty impressive monstrosity at the time (1984ish).

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Phil Hobbs

That's not a lot. I didn't think Sony made them that cheap. But what resolution?

Obviously I don't power the camera from this end! The USB cable is for the data.

Yes here is, it means I can see everything at once. And by the way I only paid £50 for one and the other 4 were free.

You have to open the command prompt first or make it in focus.

And actually, I can just press the windows key, then enter widget (or even wid would do) then press ENTER.

To open VLC media player, I only have to press WINDOWS V L ENTER.

Why does linux have such weird names? Some of the disk programs I'm sure they deliberately made them almost the word f*ck.

So exactly like windows and DOS have always done. You had to get a special shell to have command history?

Writing programs to make a computer work ROTFPMSL!

Ooooh you got the last word in, how childish.

If you have something in the centre of the sun, maybe so. Still, why not wrap then solder?

Yeah we don't hand carve car chassises any more either.

I laugh at Americans killing each other. At least it keeps your numbers down to the same level as your intelligence.

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. If you read about a mass shooting event with many wounded and few, if any, fatalities, the shooter(s) were black. If there were many fatalities usually the shooter(s) were white.

We will have to wait and see. I don't believe any of the proposed "plans" for moving to all EVs will work. There simply isn't enough electricity generating capacity in the UK or Germany to go around.

Vintage cars get special dispensation. There are still a few running on leaded fuel because conversion is impossible. Come to that there are a few wood burning steam powered cars in the annual London to Brighton race that are still going more than 100 years after they were built.

UK barely has enough electricity in winter to keep the lights on. And if Russia turns off their gas tap then Germany will grind to a halt PDQ.

Mine are in the two short planks league. They are easily fooled into coming on by the very low winter sun or passing under a short underpass.

To be fair in automatic mode they are almost always on when I think they should be but are sometimes on because of their bad design and my high latitude. Very rarely they fail to come on when poor local visibility is the reason for switching them on rather than absolute light levels.

The question is what colour are the dead?

Usually some shade of brown... The other clue is if the news articles are very vague in describing the alleged shooter and don't run a mug shot. If the perp was white that's in the lede.

If the name appears to have been created by an illiterate trying to phonetically spell something you have another clue.

Somebody with more sense might have classified the victims by income and education.

Murder and violent crime in general is typically poverty-related.

From the many conversations I had with people from the UK, it is surprising you can keep your grid up currently. So adding even one more BEV may bring it crashing down. Yes, I agree about the UK. It is more like a third world country than anything. I expect here in Puerto Rico they are better equipped to support BEVs.

Actually, it isn't. All petroleum can be replaced with organic sources... that we don't need to wait millions of years for processing. It's a matter of time until that is more practical than it is today. The other alternative for many is hydrogen. Again, not entirely practical today, but it is being used and will be much more used as the source energy becomes cheaper.

Exactly. Think of Puerto Rico and hurricane Maria. Yeah, that's where the UK is headed, but mostly because of the defeatist attitude.

NEC V20

And it ran them surprisingly well for the time. I had one. The 16 bit V30 version was almost as fast as a 286 and had bit twiddling instructions. V20 was certainly faster than the 8088 by ~10%.

ISTR there was a bun fight over reverse engineered/stolen microcode too.

The most impressive of the alternative chips was the Cyrix FasMath FPU which was done by formal methods and found multiple bugs in the Intel

Crimping is done with metals that, unlike solder, don't cold-flow. Mil-spec crimps don't fail. There's a lot of crimped wiring in an airplane.

Look inside a modern one; bear in mind, only wave solder is suitable for making all the DC power wire connections, and then only with significant touchup afterward; one generally doesn't wave solder doublesided or surface mount.

Right, National was mostly analog. I was surprised to find TI bought National. I hadn't thought about either in a long time. I worked on a project that used the TMS9900. It's claim to fame was availability in a rad hard version. NEC seems to be rolling along.

Quirks of fate. IBM didn't believe in the PC market and the 8088 was the cheapest way to go. And here we are...