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« Reply #2220 on: 2 Feb 2024, 11:58 pm »


It just proves that two wrongs do make a right.

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« Reply #2221 on: 3 Feb 2024, 11:25 am »



TINTIN bought an electric car !

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Years ago on the old David Letterman show, he told a story of how his dog ate some spoiled meat.  He called the Vet and was told to give it a tablespoon of Hydrogen Peroxide to get the dog to vomit.  Well, Dave did just that and the dog vomited the meat on Dave's driveway.  Dave went to get a shovel and the dog ate it again and Dave had to repeat the process.  I laughed my ass off.  Well, fast forward 15 years.  My Giant Schnauzer ate some wild mushrooms from the lawn.  I took her out on my deck and gave her the Hydrogen Peroxide.  She vomited in 5 minutes.  I went inside to get some paper towels and when I came back out, she had eaten the mushrooms again.

Karma is a bitch!

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« Reply #2235 on: 7 Feb 2024, 03:37 pm »

I used 8'' Floppy Diskettes in IBM 3274 terminal control unit for local term configuration, these diskettes pictured are 5'' though.
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« Reply #2236 on: 7 Feb 2024, 04:12 pm »
Who used one of these to learn math?




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« Reply #2237 on: 7 Feb 2024, 06:32 pm »
BELL LAB PROVES EXISTENCE OF DARK SUCKERS!

For years it has been believed that electric bulbs emitted light. However,
recent information from Bell Labs has proven otherwise. Electric bulbs
don't emit light; they suck dark. Thus they now call these bulbs dark
suckers.  The dark sucker theory, according to a spokesman from the Labs,
proves the existence of dark, that dark has mass heavier than that of
light, and that dark is faster than light.

The basis of the dark sucker theory is that electric bulbs suck dark. Take
for example the dark suckers in the room where you are. There is less dark
right next to them than there is elsewhere. The larger the dark sucker,
the greater its capacity to suck dark. Dark suckers in a parking lot have
a much greater capacity than the ones in this room.

As with all things, dark suckers don't last forever. Once they are full of
dark, they can no longer suck. This is proven by the black spot on a full
dark sucker. A new candle has a white wick. You will notice that after the
first use, the wick turns black, representing all the dark which has been
sucked into it. If you hold a pencil next to the wick of an operating
candle, the tip will turn black because it got in the path of the dark
flowing into the candle. Unfortunately, these primitive dark suckers have
a very limited range.

There are also portable dark suckers. The bulbs in these can't handle all
of the dark by themselves, and must be aided by a dark storage unit. When
the dark storage unit is full, it must be either emptied or replaced
before the portable dark sucker can operate again.

Dark has mass. When dark goes into a dark sucker, friction from this mass
generates heat. Thus it is not wise to touch an operating dark sucker.
Candles present a special problem, as the dark must travel in the solid
wick instead of through glass. This generates a great amount of heat. Thus
it can be very dangerous to touch an operating candle.

Dark is also heavier than light. If you swim deeper and deeper, you notice
it gets darker and darker. When you reach a depth of approximately fifty
feet, you are in total darkness. This is because the heavier dark sinks to
the bottom of the lake and the ligher light floats to the top.

The immense power of dark can be utilized to a man's advantage. We can
collect the dark that has settled to the bottom of lakes and push it
through turbines, which generates electricity and helps push it to the
ocean where it may be safely stored. Prior to turbines, it was much more
difficult to get dark from rivers and lakes to the ocean. The Indians
recognized this problem and tried to solve it. When on a river in a canoe
traveling in the same direction as the flow of dark, they paddled slowly,
so as not to stop the flow of dark, but when they traveled against the
flow of dark, they paddled quickly so as to help push the dark along its
way.

Finally, we must prove that dark is faster than light. If you stand in an
illuminated room in front of a closed, dark closet, then slowly open the
door, you would see the light slowly enter the closet, but since the dark
is so fast, you would not be able to see the dark leave the closet.

In conclusion, Bell Labs stated that dark suckers make all our lives much
easier. So the next time you look at an electric light bulb, remember that
it is indeed a dark sucker.

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« Reply #2238 on: 7 Feb 2024, 06:35 pm »
Who used one of these to learn math?



Never used an abicus, but I knew my way around one of these pretty well when I was taking chemistry and physics in high school.


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« Reply #2239 on: 7 Feb 2024, 09:00 pm »
"I knew my way around one of these pretty well when I was taking chemistry and physics in high school."
We used the Abacus in second grade. Really made it easy to understand working to the right of the decimal. Learnd how to use the slide rule while teaching lab classes in Mechanical Engineering. We had a working slide rule that was 10 feet long. The students hated it, we treated it like a history lesson. By that time they had more advanced calculators.