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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 (...) (16 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, 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 (...) (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)
| | | | | 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)
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