Toolman Tim wrote:
Does that need Belkin protection when you use it?

In news:wHRCf.68835$q4.4307@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net,
clot spewed forth:
Only on Thursdays. That's when I dual boot with the Infinity Drive.

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"clot" <clot.1@ntlglobe.goon> wrote in message
news:_zRCf.68829$q4.44172@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...

hey....speaking of that...
i just found out the the technology existed in 1952 to make desktop
computers...

yep...in 1952, the technology existed to make
500 foot long desks that could support several tons!!!!

Toolman Tim wrote:
That's great. It will save me a few £s. On Thursdays I Hitch Hike
through the Galaxy. It only costs me 42 none denominated thingies. Have
you an e-mail address for perpetual motion products?

old jon wrote:

What ddoes that make me? I got my BS in 1948, MS in 1949, Ph.D.in 1961 and
studied EE, chemistry, etc.

A system of complex coordinates will plot a function of comlex quantities.
One axis real and the coordinate axis imaginary. Of course on a real number
domain with only real numbers you can't plot that equation. Doesn't mean it
doesn't exist. It just doesn't exist in the domain of real numbers.

In news:CTRCf.23856$Rw6.16268@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net,
clot spewed forth:
Email? They have email outside of our solar system?

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Toolman Tim wrote:
I thought so. Do I or you have a problem? Have you not seen those scarry
things at night come out of the skies. You know, those guys with the big
heads and small bodies plating flags in Planet Earth?

<snip>
1949...
yep...that's the year I was born.
I've got a great memory...but can't go back much past 1952.

I recall that when they did road construction...they'd erect those wooden
and wire-mesh cyclone fences...and instead of battery operated , yellow
flashing lights...
they'd light kerosene smudge-pots.


Even though I was just 3 years old...
I was quite good in my understanding of science...
only I did not have things quite right.

I recall having a small bucket of water and then adding sand to it.
The sand of course fell to the bottom (and I did not see it) and as I added
sand...
the bucket overflowed.

I was really surprised...as there was a gap of several inches between the
water
and the top of the bucket... Then...all in a flash I made the "realization"
that when
you put sand into a bucket of water...the sand turns to water!

It seemed very incredible to me...but being all of 3 years old...did not
know any better.

Next...I wanted to share my new "discovery" with my friends in a very
impressive way.

So I dumped out the bucket (probably not even noticing the sand at the
bottom) and filled it
most of the way with sand...
Then I told all my friends:
"Watch this!" And placed the bucket under a water spigot...in excited
anticipation
of watching all the sand turn into water!!!!
Well obviously all I got was a little wet sand...and all my friends
wondering what the big deal was...
I was so puzzled...all I said was "Well it worked, just a minute ago...I
don't know why it's not working now!"

I then went into the house and my parents explained Archimedes principle to
me!

Funny thing is... I understood it perfectly...
Too bad I didn't go running outside yelling" Eureka!"

philo wrote:
Archimedes had a wonderful screw that we use today. Many irrigations,
waterworks and wastewater works would cost us more without that
knowledge and information.

<snip>

Thanks for the reminder...
I had forgotten about that!

In news:%6SCf.23999$Rw6.5302@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net,
clot spewed forth:
That was a FLAG they planted? I thought it was an irradiated onion!

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philo wrote:
You are welcome to the info. !

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:43:14 -0600, philo <philo@privacy.net> wrote:

(middle of the night) with my grandpa, who was a night watchman. Don't
remember much about it but remember being waked by passing steam
trains going by at night and that grandpa carried a kerosene lantern
to light our path. I must have been about 5 yrs old then in the late
40's. Place- Virginia along the James river west of Richmond by about
2 or so miles. Still have lots of relatives in that area.
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Toolman Tim wrote:

In news:e4TCf.20612$Kt5.13490@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net,
clot spewed forth:
You can't POSSIBLY be listening to Mavin? Scary - getting information from
/that/ source...

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One of my favorite memories from early childhood
was going down to the railroad tracks.
The train engineer and the kids would get in squirt-gun fights!

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:51:49 -0800, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:

Blimey - that brings back memories of all the key punch girls lined up
in the office transcribing the programs on to the punch cards then
another group of girls verifying them by doing it all again on the
already punched cards!!

No monitors then to see output - just the printer output!!

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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:42:55 -0600, Solar^ <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:


Please let us know what the Prof says!!

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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:05:39 +1100, Stubbo_of_Oz wrote:

Don't forget about the steam-driven mainframes and the cables carved out
of wood.

That's all I ever saw.

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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:44:26 -0800, Blinky the Shark
<no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:

Yeh but we had to pedal ours to powere em up!!

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