Posts for: TheShoe
Mar 31, 2024 12:43:46 #
fourlocks wrote:
Post WW II but pre-nuclear? br br Interesting s... (show quote)
Nautilus predated the tuna design. Seawolf was a variant of the Nautilus. IIRC, there was one shaped like a blimp before the tuna took over.
Mar 31, 2024 12:27:51 #
StanMac wrote:
The bow looks like a canoe. Quite different from modern designs for sure.
Stan
Stan
Looks like a relative of the Nautilus.
Mar 31, 2024 12:15:34 #
home brewer wrote:
Does anyone like BING?
Cherries? Yes to them. Crosby? Also a yes. M$? Don't like the pushiness of its product pusher.
Mar 30, 2024 12:39:51 #
pmorin wrote:
Along the Great Ocean Road you come upon some places that you appreciate for their natural beauty. This was one of them for me. The erosive power of the ocean is visible on a grand scale here and on down the coastline.
Your timing was much better than mine. Great shot. There were 18 of them when I visited.
Mar 29, 2024 13:49:56 #
I'm sure glad they don't use that stuff any more. It was state of the art in 1950 when I had an emergency appendectomy. I puked for over 24 hours after the surgery.
Mar 29, 2024 13:36:12 #
Knew it would be good. I started watching Groban's shows on PBS when he was a very good tenor, before the teen hormones turned him into a baritone. The pairing with Dion had to be good.
Mar 29, 2024 13:16:34 #
TriX wrote:
Never worked on a 1401, the 360 was hex.
The 360 was where I worked after my Army time. The earlier machines did I/O inline. When you started an I/O operation the machine could do nothing else until the I/O completed. No overlapped operation, no O/S, single task. Those were the days.
Mar 29, 2024 01:50:46 #
TriX wrote:
I remember the 1401. Internally at IBM, we referred to it as a “business machine”, not a “computer” like the 360 I was trained on.
It was a stored program computer. It was considered mid-range at the time. In the large shops that I saw, it was used mainly to copy decks of cards to tape to be used as input for the larger machines and to take tapes containing reports produce by the bigger boys and print them. Many small shops used them for other things. RPG was a popular program on them. As noted above, it was a true decimal machine. It did not convert to binary.
We always said that RPG was an acronym for Repulsive Program Generator.
Mar 28, 2024 12:58:34 #
Longshadow wrote:
Although I used mainframes, the majority of my wor... (show quote)
Did you check that link? The 1401 was all decimal, while the 7080 and some other processors used a hybrid called Qi-binary.
Mar 28, 2024 12:46:36 #
fantom wrote:
google it
I will believe it when I see a mother duck nurse her newborn babies. I was born in Missouri, you have to show me.
Mar 28, 2024 03:43:02 #
fantom wrote:
No, it is the correct spelling of a type of duck.
When did a duck become a mammal?
Mar 27, 2024 13:07:33 #
jerryc41 wrote:
The authorities asked Google to turn over to them all the information about all the people who watched a certain YouTube video. The number of potential watchers is about 30,000, with name, address, phone number, and email address potentially being turned over to the authorities.
More details from Lehto's Law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8jMSs8du-o
More details from Lehto's Law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8jMSs8du-o
Click on the link and they will have your info, too
Mar 27, 2024 12:57:02 #
JohnR wrote:
WE are not amused 
Is that the empirical plural, or are you including all Kiwis?
Mar 27, 2024 04:17:57 #
Longshadow wrote:
• I'm talking about normal run-of-the-mill computers.
• The way you wrote it sounded like you were saying that they work in decimal......
• I only have 50 years of working with computers, processors, ICs, and programming. Hope to get at least 10 more if I'm lucky. (8 of my 12 programming languages leaked out of my head over time.) Yea, I think I know how they work.
Except the newer processors, I never got into the guts of them.
• The way you wrote it sounded like you were saying that they work in decimal......
• I only have 50 years of working with computers, processors, ICs, and programming. Hope to get at least 10 more if I'm lucky. (8 of my 12 programming languages leaked out of my head over time.) Yea, I think I know how they work.
Except the newer processors, I never got into the guts of them.
I first programmed an IBM 650, the first commercially available stored program computer, as a college freshman in 1959. My career was spent working mainly with mainframes, mostly operating systems.For mre aout the 2nd generation adders see https://www.righto.com/2015/10/qui-binary-arithmetic-how-1960s-ibm.html
Mar 26, 2024 15:06:27 #
scoundrel wrote:
It is a color very much like cyan if not a synonym for it.
Don't forget about the ducks.