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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)
| | | | | Re: number notation in official parts
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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)
| | | | | MakerBeam: open source metal building kit
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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)
| | | | | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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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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