Originally Posted by spitefulcheerio
(Post 721701)
for being a n00b, I deserve that. I opened my eyes a little bit and saw your sig lol
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
(Post 721736)
I'll still sell you my used one for $30. :)
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Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin
(Post 721696)
Pretty much the same for me in Kandahar, but less epic and in the semi-safety zone of the flight line.
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Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin
(Post 721696)
Pretty much the same for me in Kandahar, but less epic and in the semi-safety zone of the flight line.
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Originally Posted by icantthink4155
(Post 721961)
Am I wrong in guessing the boot band is to keep shit from crawing up your pants/down your boots?
...the original way was to tuck the pantleg in the boot, but the strap makes it easier. |
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Crooks that got their sag on. You gotta love em...
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Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin
(Post 722045)
...the original way was to tuck the pantleg in the boot, but the strap makes it easier.
http://www.gearzoneproducts.com/Prod...BV-TR360-b.jpg is like a sawtooth and will "eject" my pants from the boot opening. So blousers it is. |
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Originally Posted by icantthink4155
(Post 722113)
(robot catches a ball.)
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But did it also make & deliver coffee?
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I don't believe that it made coffee.
But it is really astounding just how much neat stuff those folks were able to do on what, by today's standards, were some astoundingly primitive machines. For instance, the Sixes had an 18-bit address space (and the high-moby / low-moby paging mechanism wasn't invented until the Ten) so the maximum memory on one was only 256k (where k = kiloword, slightly different from a kilobyte, but functionally similar) and most machines were configured with far less than that; RAM in those days was magnetic core- big, heavy, and obscenely expensive. Performance-wise, a Six ran at about 0.25 MIPS. For comparison, the original IBM PC, running at 4.77 MHZ, did 0.33 MIPS. (The machine I'm typing this on tips the scales at a little over 4,000 MIPS.) Anybody here think they can write a ball-catching routine in 256k on an 8086 machine? To me, that's a pretty damn big achievement. I'd love to know how much processing power the designers of that robot wasted to make it do the same thing. And, since this is a picture thread, here is a PDP-6: http://www.vintchip.com/MAINFRAME/PDP-6/PDP-6.jpg And here is the actual robot arm that caught the first ping-pong ball: http://images.travelpod.com/users/be...-robot-arm.jpg |
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
(Post 722891)
I don't believe that it made coffee.
But it is really astounding just how much neat stuff those folks were able to do on what, by today's standards, were some astoundingly primitive machines. For instance, the Sixes had an 18-bit address space (and the high-moby / low-moby paging mechanism wasn't invented until the Ten) so the maximum memory on one was only 256k (where k = kiloword, slightly different from a kilobyte, but functionally similar) and most machines were configured with far less than that; RAM in those days was magnetic core- big, heavy, and obscenely expensive. Performance-wise, a Six ran at about 0.25 MIPS. For comparison, the original IBM PC, running at 4.77 MHZ, did 0.33 MIPS. (The machine I'm typing this on tips the scales at a little over 4,000 MIPS.) Anybody here think they can write a ball-catching routine in 256k on an 8086 machine? To me, that's a pretty damn big achievement. I'd love to know how much processing power the designers of that robot wasted to make it do the same thing. And, since this is a picture thread, here is a PDP-6: http://www.vintchip.com/MAINFRAME/PDP-6/PDP-6.jpg And here is the actual robot arm that caught the first ping-pong ball: http://images.travelpod.com/users/be...-robot-arm.jpg sometimes simple can be good too. |
Random shots of One Lap in Gainesville. I want Andy Hollis's Crx!
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._3667241_n.jpg http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2685701_n.jpg http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._1096952_n.jpg My brother's picture with one of the bauces. http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphot..._2556621_n.jpg |
Originally Posted by golftdibrad
(Post 722926)
I think the thing you posted would use the later method of PID control and collection vs. correction it with raw computing power as is commonly done now days....
Lastly, to keep up with the spirit of the forum, here is a naked man humping a PDP-11, which was the last series in the PDP family, and the progenitor of the VAX, one of the most popular large computers of the 1970s and 80s. http://irc.servus.at/zt_pdp11.jpg |
Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin
(Post 721240)
nuf said.
http://biggeekdaddy.com/sitebuilder/...rt-640x630.jpg |
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