'Dorian'

Post #417,458 by Ashton 3/12/17 7:10:21 AM 3/12/17 7:10:21 AM Reply	'Dorian' http://www.space.com/34661-manned-orbiting-laboratory-declassified-photos.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=most-popular OK, the html is alive and well..
Post #417,460 by a6l6e6x 3/12/17 4:21:45 PM 3/12/17 4:21:45 PM Reply	Believe it or not, I worked on that sucker! Way down the food chain. IBM had a contract on a triplex computer system, 3 CPUs with shared memory and what IBM called LCS or Large Capacity Storage. If you can believe it, LCS it was 2 MB! But, in those days, memory was used judiciously. I was one of the designers on the basic (up to duplex) CPU, so when the guys doing the triplex design got in trouble, I got to help to make it work. It was sad to get that project cancelled. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov
Post #417,462 by Ashton 3/13/17 6:55:39 PM 3/13/17 6:55:39 PM Reply	Heh.. Synchronicity! aka Jung again, he is Evrywhar.. Have a friend with the name of (either the whole MOL or) that compact ~~Cassegrain spy-scope module.. How odd that her name has ... quite different associations; while you were CPU-ing we'unses were connecting-up two accelerators to create the [Super-Hilac + Bevatron] --one located up a nearby hill-side!--heavy ions-to-H.E. "Bevalac". Guess we were both having fun-with-Science, eh? (And I was learnin 'bout Geo Boole via a PDP-8) available to moi for a while: to see if I Could create a program to convert stuff on an oily yellow paper tape (BCD-decimal or something) and display numbers on an ASR-33. Hey.. I Could whilee determining that I'd never become a programmer/would always choose the NYT Crossword over any 'rithmetic-digitations thankyouverymuch. and PS ANOTHER Synchro! Al Gore on PBS right NOW with book-cover for The Assault on Reason as intro backdrop!! Jeez ... out there in the Bardos .. am Ipreprogramming our PBS tepid-progressive News Clowns?? Guess I gotta make addendum to the Gore review. (We're still all doomed with that gaggle of clinically-Evil mofos at the levers of the Entire fucking Planet.)
Post #417,463 by a6l6e6x 3/14/17 6:12:42 PM 3/14/17 6:12:42 PM Reply	Synchronicity, indeed! I caught the Al Gore segment on PBS last night. He's more optimistic about the future than I am. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov

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