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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 (...) (16 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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 (...) (16 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thanks for the info. I've always used perl scripts to convert oddly formatted data to a consistent format and then read it like that. Nice to know I don't always have to. If it could only read some of the more bizarre Fortran formats I'd never (...) (16 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hi! Thought this project would be interesting to the LUGnet community, hope I've found the right subforum. (URL) MakerBeam> is a project to build an open source metal building kit, like a next-generation Erector Set or Meccano. Instead of the (...) (17 years ago, 24-Sep-09, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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(...) Ahhh... The thought never entered my mind :-) Seems I'm the one that need more coffee - but not now, closing on bedtime here... Thanks for the correction and explanation! (18 years ago, 23-Nov-08, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) 'Persons' can be male or female so 1 in 12 of 1 in 2 are coloublind. AKA 1 in 24 ;) Tim (18 years ago, 23-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I am totally confused now BTW because I got this E-mail from some John L. in my mailbox: ---...--- Dear Jaco, We are sorry to hear of the difficulties you have been experiencing. I suggest 31 would be appropriate. If you have any more questions feel (...) (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Right. So who is to change the name then? Peeron or LDraw? (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) But if you use the part properly* it's 31 degrees. The 45 slope is named for its face slope rather than its total slope. Tim * And by properly I, of course, mean use a heap of offsetting to make them all line up ;) (18 years ago, 29-Sep-08, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Wireless Power for LEGO Trains?
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(...) (URL) (18 years ago, 25-Aug-08, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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