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From: Tony Lance on 4 Feb 2007 12:19 Big Bertha Thing balloon Cosmic Ray Series Possible Real World System Constructs http://web.onetel.com/~tonylance/balloon.html 7K Web Page Astrophysics net ring access site Newsgroup Reviews including sci.optics The "Monstre" Balloon From the book The Ingoldsby Legends by the Rev. Richard H. Barham Published by Richard Edward King, 88 Curtain Road, London E.C. Inscribed;- Barbara Death From Aunt Emma March 6th 1921 (C) Copyright Tony Lance 1999 Distribute complete and free of charge to comply. Big Bertha Thing welfare 29th April 1999 Operations Manager, The Benefits Agency, Dear Sirs, Further to your letter of 28th April 1999, regarding a list of questions, on the possibility of my working at all. I will attempt to answer your questions, in order as listed in your letter. 1.I am not working, I am just pottering arround on the internet. I last registered for course work with the Open University in 1997. This would have involved 6 hours work per week. I could only manage half-an-hour per day, so totally failed to do the work or complete the course. Not even one homework assignment was completed. In August 1997, I bought a second hand computer for 150 pounds sterling, and was given free access to the Open University computer along local telephone lines at a call charge of 1p per minute. Since that time, I managed to build up a body of correspondence, within the limits of half-an-hour per day mental or physical work. In January 1999, this correspondence was transfered by me to my web site; www.bertha.ndirect.co.uk(since disabled.) I have to pay 14 pounds and 9p per month for this site. 2.Nobody suggested it, it just happened. 3.My doctor does not know that I have a web site. 4.See answer 1 for description of my activities. No job is being done, so no job description exists. 5.No employer exists or payments have been recieved. 6.I can think straight for half-an-hour per day. The rest of the time is spent pottering arround. I can do one side of A4 paper of mathematics or computer work per day. 7.On any day free of a major shopping expedition, I can do half-an-hour of original work and about an hour of copy typing at non-typist speeds. 8.My principle interest is a 50 year scientific project, which was started 30 years ago. If I could spend 48 hours per week doing it I would. However half-an-hour work and an hour pottering, seems to be all I can manage and at that not every day of the week. Due to my condition, I asked Mrs. Pam S...., a fellow Open University student to be the project archivist for my work on the Open University computer. She agreed and kept the archive of the correspondence which is now on my web site. This is both an unusual request and an unusually generous service to a fellow student on incapacity benefit. 9.Zero income for as far as the eye can see. 10.Not applicable, zero wages or income. 11.August 1997 and is ongoing. I trust that the above will put the internet feeding frenzy of the newspaper hype into some perspective. Thank you, Tony Lance judemarie(a)bigberthathing.co.uk
From: Phil Carmody on 4 Feb 2007 12:19 unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> writes: > Phil Carmody wrote: > > unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> writes: > > > >>I was told that > >> > >>http://www.ts1000.us/ > >> > >>had a coding contest in 2006. That's using the old Sinclair > >>"doorstop" computers with 1K memory which also held the OS > >>and a basic interpreter. I don't know how much space was > >>left for programs, but it wasn't very much. > > Unsurprisingly you can't get your facts right. > > The ts1000 and the Sinclair ZX81 both had 8KB ROM. The former had > > 2KB RAM, the latter 1KB. The screen, > > more like a text buffer, took up to 768 bytes. > > Of course, it was well worth saving up for the 16k RAM pack, wobble > > or no wobble. > > Phil > > Ya got me, Phil. So I forgot about the ROM. However: Yeah, it's easy to forget about little things like ROMs. I was just assembling a PC the other day, and I forgot to put a CPU in! NOT! > "The ZX81 contained only four main chips : the ROM, Z80A CPU, > 1K RAM and the Ferranti custom-made chip! It is as simple as > that. The machine was assembled by Timex Corporation in their > Scottish plant. " > > http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=263 Why are you telling me about a machine I used and programmed for over a year? > Total available bytes of RAM 901. Available for what? Do you know what that figure represents? Or did you just mindlessly search for a webpage and copy-paste the first thing that you found that looked vaguely relevant? It looks like the latter. Phil -- "Home taping is killing big business profits. We left this side blank so you can help." -- Dead Kennedys, written upon the B-side of tapes of /In God We Trust, Inc./.
From: Ken Smith on 4 Feb 2007 12:29 In article <eq4jtm$8ss_007(a)s795.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >In article <eq2foe$2bi$4(a)blue.rahul.net>, > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >>In article <epvkjc$8qk_004(a)s893.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>>In article <epqdem$lk3$14(a)blue.rahul.net>, >>> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >>[.....] >>>>Oh good now you admit that there are moderates and exteremists. >>> >>>This is more smoke and mirrors. I do not lump moderates and >>>extremists together; you appear to have done this by assuming >>>that, when I talk about extremists, I'm also talking >>>about moderates. >> >>You need to go back and read your posts from a while back. You did indeed >>lump them together. > >It would only take one action to cause all of Islam to join >those extremists. Some day, perhaps you will think a little >bit more. You have got to be kidding! I have thought about what I'm saying. It is obvious that you are just flinging stuff out and hoping some of it sticks. We have been pointing out that the actions Bush has taken has caused the extremists to gain support and you seemed not to see it. Suddenly when it is pointed out to you that what you've posted proves you now agree that the extermists are a minority, you turn on your heels and suddenly suggest that they may become united. Now you are at the other extreme and equally wrong. The amount of support is a continuous function and not a flip-flop. Perhaps if Bush did something like dropping a nuke on Meca, you could get a sizable fraction of them to unite but even then there would be internal conflicts over how to react. -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 4 Feb 2007 12:43 In article <eq4k0j$8ss_008(a)s795.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >In article <eq2gbn$2bi$5(a)blue.rahul.net>, > kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >>In article <epvr4c$8ss_016(a)s930.apx1.sbo.ma.dialup.rcn.com>, >> <jmfbahciv(a)aol.com> wrote: >>>In article <epvis8$gav$4(a)blue.rahul.net>, >>> kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) wrote: >>[....] [.....] >>>The Nixon problem would have been used to delay work on anything >>>else. >> >>Nonsense. You seem to think that the US can't think about two things at >>once. > >It can't. Did you miss the zipper mess of Clinton's administration? No, I didn't miss it. It seems you missed a great many things that also happened at the same time. Perhaps it is only you that can't handle two things at once. If you had google, I'd suggest you type "bosnia" into it for a start. There was also a bunch of news about Boing selling aircraft to China, a lot about Israel and Lebanon and many other topics. > > ><snip> > >/BAH -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge
From: Ken Smith on 4 Feb 2007 12:49
In article <45C5BBC6.48B4837C(a)hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > > >Phil Carmody wrote: > >> Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> writes: >> > unsettled wrote: >> > > MassiveProng wrote: >> > > > A computer takes what we call DATA, and performs computational tasks >> > > > on it to turn it into what we call INFOrmation. >> > > > >> > > > There is a difference, and you and BAH obviously do not know what >> > > > that difference is. >> > > > >> > > > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/microcontroller >> > > > >> > > > http://m-w.com/dictionary/microcontroller >> > > > >> > > > Neither mention the word computer at all. >> > > >> > > An electronic device for the storage and processing of information. >> > > www.micro2000uk.co.uk/hardware_glossary.htm >> > >> > I suggest you consider the difference between general purpose and embedded. >> > >> > Can BAH's stove print "Hello world" for example ? >> >> As someone who's just quit a gig at a very big name semiconductor >> company which makes everything from milliwatt 8-bits to fire-breathing >> 64-bit processors, I have to just say >> >> THIS BRANCH OF THE THREAD IS NOT WORTH GOING DOWN. >> >> Everything's shades of grey, and where people chose to draw >> the line between black and white is almost completely arbitrary. >> >> Notably, I'm not even going to tell you where on that scale I >> view 'computer' to become an inappropriate term. > >I will though. > >I expect a computer to have some decent input and output devices / ports. A few >buttons and a 4 character display don't cut it for example. So a PDP-8 could not be a computer then? > >Graham > -- -- kensmith(a)rahul.net forging knowledge |