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| (...) You know, Horse and Buggy Repairmen were the same way about the horseless carriage ;) (...) I suppose it's nice to dream,,, :P (14 years ago, 30-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) LOL Stonehenge!! Good one, Manfred! I have heard of (URL) Duncan's handiwork> before! :-) JOHN (14 years ago, 26-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Mmm-mmm, Stonehenge was a VERY advanced calculator, for it's time... (14 years ago, 22-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) I'm not worried about disk space so much as I am worried about render/move/edit time. Unnecessary polygons, even after being read in and converted into internal models, take time to process. I think you can see the difference in POVray render (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
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| (...) But that was a long time ago :-) Nowadays we *do* have an awful lot of disk space, and don't really have to squeeze the files. OTOH, every 'unnecessary' byte to read will take time, again and again while rendering, unless the rendering program (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Was it a digital switch or an analog? (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) The parenthetical "h" acknowledges the fact that "Jonathans" aren't real Johns, but simply nicknamey posers. :-p JOHN (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) That's a classic name Jo(h)nny B. Good!! :) I didn't mention my step bro-Jo(h)nathan.,, :) But even with him, ya got me beat... Dave K (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) You were lucky! We didn't even have skin! All we had was twine to try and keep our entrails in! And they would leak out all over, and parents would beat us to death each night for mussing up the floor! JOHN (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Rocks! Wow you must have been one of the rich kids that I heard about when growing up. We would have killed to have rocks for doing our computations. Our parents would hit us with a switch and use our backsides for doing their fancy adding and (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) My third computer had two floppy disk drives holding 113.75KB of data each. This was in 1979. Each drive cost $600. (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek (...) Well, when I was young, we didn't have fancy-schmancy comPUters. We had to use rocks for all of our computations. And it took all day to collect enough rocks to multiply 12x12 and our hands would get (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) I'll call with a Grampa John, my kids have 3 uncle Johns, and MY best man was a Jo(h)n. Come to think of it, I'll raise you with this: my best man's full name is Jonathan Bryant Good;-) JOHN (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) Ooooh - this can be a fun game. :-) One of my first (sorry, don't remember the order of them) was a computer I built myself. I ordered the 3-chip set from Intel (8080, the clock chip and the buffer chip), then used a bunch of SRAMS (no way (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Around these parts (central Alberta), "Chris" has been the common name for computer geeks. Once, when I worked on campus, I kicked one person out of my office, and grabbed another walking by in the hall, to have 4 computer "Chris's" in my (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Oh, we're playing "first PC", eh? My first PC had *no* floppies, just a cassette, until I added a floppy at horrendous expense. 80K capacity each... Foolishly, I bought 2. For the longest time, whatever year it was, a pretty good PC seemed to (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) I have 2 uncle Johns, a brother-in-law John, a cousin named John...best friend John (best man at my wedding)... Not one John at work, tho--that's a little odd... Dave K (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| (...) Speaking on behalf of all Johns, I gladly pass on the ubiquitous name title to y'all Daves, Geoff;-) JOHN (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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| In lugnet.space, Dave Schuler wrote: snip (...) Love to see it built with real pieces! The CGI makes it look too 'clean' :) As a guy who used to play MW lots 'n lots, I'd like to take a run around in this suit... Dave K (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| (...) On a somewhat related note... At my office, out of 90 people, 8 are named Dave. Single most popular name here. At one point, there were 3 Daves in the IT department--half the department... Eh, what are you gonna do? Dave K (who might start (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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