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(...) Well the computer lab at my high school (which I will not disclose) only had one lab, and that was all ICON II's (I believe). They were "hand-me-downs" from another highschool higher in the "resource chain". The computers were fun in a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: OT: Rogers community 10 shows
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(...) Thank-you for taking the time to check. It’s too bad that we’ll never see it… -R (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: =UNISYS Icon's=
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Three (3) things: (...) Firstly, I knew that a post concerning a classic computer system would incur a reasonable amount of nostalgia. And thus instigate someone to provide a detailed background sketch with an *abundance of info. Of which I'm duly (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: OT: Rogers community 10 shows,, was : Stuff ‘other’ than LUBE…
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<snip> (...) so is a copy of the shot footage available...or was it pitched due to "problems"? That would be nice to have a Train3 video....(wishful thinking, I know) (...) Jeff, maybe next time... :) Ben (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: OT: Rogers community 10 shows,, was : Stuff ‘other’ than LUBE…
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(...) Bad news... I just called Rogers, There were some problems with the film, and the show never made it to air.... That explains why I never saw it..... Jeff VW Still un-famous and un-discovered.... snipped all the Cal(l)um stuff... (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Beyond the Library: rtl11?
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What if we did rtl11 outside of the Library. -Something with submarines or boats (ie, everyone gets one block of 2" Styrofoam SM or a flutterboard) at a public pool. I'd really love to shoot some stuff using an underwater camera mount. But then we'd (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | OT: Rogers community 10 shows,, was : Stuff ‘other’ than LUBE…
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(...) Thanks :) Since we're on the topic of Rogers 10: In fact, I did. I had my own television show. I did it with a bunch of friends. We shot I believe six episodes for Rogers Television, a little variety show of random interviews and trivia. One (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Stuff ‘other’ than LUBE…
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(...) DOH! I taped the show monday - friday and did not see anything (I did not realize that they air on sat and sunday too...) I will call them today to see if I can get a copy of the tape.... Jeff VW (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | a zen guide to Iain's dreams....
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thanks Ivan, for compiling Iain's dreams (...) I was sent him an e-mail... and was considering buying a "special hat" (I guess for Train 1???) a la E-bay's own merchandise store. And I sent him the link for the item.... I tended to send Iain all my (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: robot building....
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"Calum Tsang" <tsangc@mie.utoronto.ca> wrote in message news:GsFpq2.MF3@lugnet.com... (...) ! Cool! (...) OMG, I just burst out laughing. I don't know why! That just struck me as so funny. I hate my name. Iain (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: robot building....
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"Ivan Louch" <ivn@idirect.ca> wrote in message news:GsFMvD.Fnx@lugnet.com... (...) measurement (...) I meant to "cube" (^3) 200 mm. I didn't mean it to read as I had typed it. My mistake! I used millimetres because that's the fundemental unit that (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: =UNISYS Icon's=
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"Richard Noeckel" <Shroud_of_kung_fu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GsFME8.E86@lugnet.com... (...) You know what's scary? Now that you mention it, I think we did the exact same thing at our school. I remember the librarian would be *ANGRY*. And (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: =UNISYS Icon's=
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(...) (this is largely OT but a good example of engineering gone bad) Ah, yes. The great ICON. For those non Canadian (or maybe even non Ontario) readers, the ICON was undoubtably one of the greatest examples of Canadian government institutional (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: robot building....
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(...) The controllers for the 10.1 test are Suncom iSFXPlus controllers with a eight way directional pad (Dpad) and eight fire buttons arranged in cardinal points. There are also two triggers on the bottom for your index fingers. None of the buttons (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: callum wants to say hi
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(...) Hello! Another person named Cal(l)um! Good to know you like Lego too, us Cal(l)ums are rare, one L or two! Calum PS-I regularily email other people with my name. At one point, there were only three of us on the Internet. (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Be sure to check for a *scar on Calum’s right rib-cage. ~From where he was conjoined! Should he be found to be the sinister twin it’s a life of fish-heads for him… ;) -R * Far too many _Simpson's_ episodes for me. (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Stuff ‘other’ than LUBE…
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(...) ~And if so did anyone tape it? -R (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: robot building....
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(...) Well if you really want to get technical, then first of all the measurement should've been in meters, not millimeters. And secondly it's 0.008m^3 and not 0.2m^3, unless you meant to say "A cube with sides of 0.2m" c'mon Iain don't embarrass us (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | =UNISYS Icon's=
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(...) I remember those!!! :-) They were the standard @ my school during the early nineties. My friends and I use to just hold down the action key for like ten-seconds and then walk away… The computers would start ‘beeping’ for about 10 mins… lol so (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: lube experiment
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(...) See the following post on lugnet: (URL) more directly, go to: (URL) and scroll about a third of the way down the page. I guess the speed computer has a much lower resolution (3 vs 16 ticks per revolution) but then it's doing a different job, (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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