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(...) The current Air & Space magazine has an article on people who are building their own flight sims. Quite an interesting read. Here's the web page for one of them: (URL) was another that was using a car for the enclosure... Three cheers to (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) That is seriously cool. A fisheye projection TV onto a rounded dome with monitors just for the instrument panels would be even cooler though. As for this comment "K, this guy has waaaay too much time/money/whatever..." I would say that if ANY (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In early mainframes the byte size varied quite a bit (pun intended). The first mainframe I worked on was a Univac 1100 which had a 36 bit word which could be referenced as either six 6-bit bytes or four 9-bit bytes. A byte is generally defined (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(URL) that works for EQ, count me in... Dave K (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Other-sized bytes are much older than that. I think 8 bits became the standard in the 60s or early 70s. I believe the PDP-10, a 36-bit computer, used 9-bit bytes. Hmmm. We've got this thing called "The Internet". I bet it's good for finding (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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