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If this is of interest to you you will know, if not you won't care.
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#272 Re: Interesting (non musical) YouTube videos.
Great video.
On my "Shelf of Shame", I have my original copy (1st edition, 8th print run) of K&R "The C Programming Language" that I bought in early 1978...
Got a copy of K&P "The Elements of Programming style" (2nd edition) on the shelf too, plus a lot of other stuff I also never read now!
On my "Shelf of Shame", I have my original copy (1st edition, 8th print run) of K&R "The C Programming Language" that I bought in early 1978...
Got a copy of K&P "The Elements of Programming style" (2nd edition) on the shelf too, plus a lot of other stuff I also never read now!
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Excellent!
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This is what we call a proper chat show :
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#275 Re: Interesting (non musical) YouTube videos.
Long, but about the development of the transistor. I didn't know that in the beginning he was trying to make a field effect device!
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1943 film, how to use a slide rule.....
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We had to use. “Logarithmic and Other Tables For Schools” - F Castle.
In the ‘60s, when he was club secretary of the Mexborough & District Homing Society pigeon racing club, my dad used a slide rule to work out the velocities of the pigeons in yards per minute to 3 decimal places. He then ‘upgraded’ to an Otis King helical slide rule. https://www.svpal.org/~dickel/OK/OtisKing.html. This did all the yards over minutes and seconds long division required.
Finally, in 1974, he bought a Decimo “Vatman” electronic calculator which reduced the time he spent on a Sunday morning working out the race, from 2 hours, to 35 mins. When I got my first Mac LCII I used to word process the results for him. Of course, pigeon racing results are all computerised now and sadly, the Mexborough & District Homing Society no longer exists.
In the ‘60s, when he was club secretary of the Mexborough & District Homing Society pigeon racing club, my dad used a slide rule to work out the velocities of the pigeons in yards per minute to 3 decimal places. He then ‘upgraded’ to an Otis King helical slide rule. https://www.svpal.org/~dickel/OK/OtisKing.html. This did all the yards over minutes and seconds long division required.
Finally, in 1974, he bought a Decimo “Vatman” electronic calculator which reduced the time he spent on a Sunday morning working out the race, from 2 hours, to 35 mins. When I got my first Mac LCII I used to word process the results for him. Of course, pigeon racing results are all computerised now and sadly, the Mexborough & District Homing Society no longer exists.
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It's star wars day...whoopeee!
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#281 Re: Interesting (non musical) YouTube videos.
I wonder...would it occur to Wes Andersen to do a spoof? I'd watch it anyway. However I'm looking forward to his latest film - excited trousers, I think, is a suitable expression.
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Can but dream... Isle of Dogs. Love it. Grand Budapest Hotel. Love it. Love them all really...andrew Ivimey wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 9:45 am I wonder...would it occur to Wes Andersen to do a spoof? I'd watch it anyway. However I'm looking forward to his latest film - excited trousers, I think, is a suitable expression.
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Wow!Cressy Snr wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 8:33 am We had to use. “Logarithmic and Other Tables For Schools” - F Castle.
In the ‘60s, when he was club secretary of the Mexborough & District Homing Society pigeon racing club, my dad used a slide rule to work out the velocities of the pigeons in yards per minute to 3 decimal places. He then ‘upgraded’ to an Otis King helical slide rule. https://www.svpal.org/~dickel/OK/OtisKing.html. This did all the yards over minutes and seconds long division required.
Finally, in 1974, he bought a Decimo “Vatman” electronic calculator which reduced the time he spent on a Sunday morning working out the race, from 2 hours, to 35 mins. When I got my first Mac LCII I used to word process the results for him. Of course, pigeon racing results are all computerised now and sadly, the Mexborough & District Homing Society no longer exists.
Thanks for that.
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"No matter how fast light travels it finds that the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."
#285 Re: Interesting (non musical) YouTube videos.
it's no longer star wars day
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