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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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