For those interested in the Blit and other stuff from the labs,
particularly if you are in the Seattle area, you might like to contact
s...@sdf.lonestar.org who is the Associated Curator of the Communications
Museum. He gave me a tour and I introduced him to games/crabs.
Big old telephone exchange
Dear God, big old working exchanges?!
We had a tiny little relay logic step by step PABX at trade school,
adjusting her was punishment detail. Well, it *was* until they worked out I
actually enjoyed getting the old girl to make party tricks...
I wonder if I *am* actually allowed into the US these
Well, such are my limitations, I don't give two short smegs about the Blit
or "The Labs", Johnny come latelelys that they are, promoting new editors
such as "ed". Instead of edt, the one true editor. But when I was a lad,
these many years ago, we did have to pick up the phone - without dial,
there
Your bad fortune.
On 27/04/2017 1:13 PM, "Winston Kodogo" wrote:
> Well, such are my limitations, I don't give two short smegs about the Blit
> or "The Labs", Johnny come latelelys that they are, promoting new editors
> such as "ed". Instead of edt, the one true editor. But when I was a lad,
> t
He who convinces himself he don't need to learn from history should read
about the fall of the Roman Empire a little.
But yeah, be damned if I'll ever work for the phone company again. Only the
railways was a more thankless job.
It is a little pleasant to visit ones memories for some nostalgia fr
Thanks to you too. Fortunately working in research is perhaps the best part
of the telephony system. As for editors, I used sam when I was working at
Google. My esteemed coworkers used vim.
brucee
On 27/04/2017 1:35 PM, "Shane Morris" wrote:
> He who convinces himself he don't need to learn fro
Research was always fun. I remember helping out with the Optus Flash-192
tests many years ago, giving the senior engineers a bit of a hand patching
crap together and all that. Learnt a whole heap out of it. I think we've
clocked 100Gbps over a single fibre link now, the -192 was 80Gbps back then.
>From a recent twitter thread -- droppings?! :) -- I got the impression that
smj wasn't at Comm. Museum anymore.
Coincidentally, on the same thread I found out that by a series of happy
accidents my old 5620 ended up in a nice home, restored to its original
beauty. The same guy has done some amaz
I guess Stephen should update his webpage. He's quite a specialized
tinkerer. He built a huge analogue synthesizer for the Smashing Pumpkins,
so big the photo he showed me was taken in a car lot. I had test audio of
his S&H module as a ring-tone on my old nokia, which drove the nurses in
hospital n
