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| (...) I've been around computer hardware since the intel 8008 (about 1978), and a byte has always been 8 bits, and a nibble 4 bits. I do not claim to know all architectures though). In some machines 16 bits is a word, and in others a half word, 32 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Mechanical Memory for Computing
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| (...) I didn't know there was an off-topic.geek group, but I agree that's where this should go. :) I'd be interested in seeing hardware that defines a byte other then 8 bits. I don't know if there is some programming language that redefines a byte, (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Mechanical Memory for Computing
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| (...) Actually a byte is whatever you define it to be - a nibble is generally half a byte, and a word is generally 2 bytes. I haven't seen a machine using 4 bit bytes, but I've seen 8, 16, 32 and 64. And I'm sure there are other weird ones floating (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.robotics, lugnet.build, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | ozbricks login help
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| Did ozbricks.net change their login procedure again? It used to be .... login: username@ozbrick.net pass: x Did they change the format again? (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: geek test
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| (...) Hello, 35.7% for me. I seems highly weighted for gaming either computer or other. I did fudge a bit on some things that I 'used' to do but don't now. I was honest though on some I thought I might know the answer to, but was not 100% sure. I (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Rechargeable Batteries - with correct link :)
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| Peter Newman's utterance expressed in news:Law11-OE61ygIDd...tmail.com: (...) Yep - that is what I mean too - sorry if I wasn't clear about it :) In Denmark the old type of non-rechargeable batteries are called "brunsten" which translated gives (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: The Derotatinator
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| (...) All mass has gravity, Gravity is a function of mass. a pinhead floating in space has a gravitational force, but the moons is a lot bigger and could override the pinheads, thus pulling or "Attracting" it towards it. (Though I'm sure flowers and (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space)
| | | | | Re: The Derotatinator
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| (...) Note I said "there's no friction", not "there's no gravity". Of course there's gravity in space - otherwise we wouldn't know which way was up! The Capacitor-Relayed Open Charged Kinetics battery system is definitely below the main hull of the (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The Derotatinator
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| (...) Pendulums don't work in the absence of gravity, and they really only work with the largest gravitic pull from their location, whether it be from a single source or closely clustered combined sources. The moon exerts the largest gravitic pull (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
| | | | | Re: The Derotatinator
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| (...) It's like a pendulum, I guess, but in space (which is where the earth is), there's no friction, so it just keeps going - backward and forward ad infinitum. The sea monkey explanation was a good one too, just not the right one. IMO. (...) The (...) (21 years ago, 22-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.space, FTX)
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