Well, I guess that's one alternative...  Not a particularly appealing one
though... Oh well...

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Lance.


P.S.  As I remember it the first calculators were about the size of
typewriters and had neon tube style digits (you know, the thin nice looking
orange ones that were stacked behind one another...)

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Lance Birch wrote:
> 
> Well, I guess that's one alternative...  Not a particularly appealing one
> though... Oh well...
> 
> --
> Lance.
> 
> P.S.  As I remember it the first calculators were about the size of
> typewriters and had neon tube style digits (you know, the thin nice looking
> orange ones that were stacked behind one another...)

  I have a shoe box full of the old neon, HV gas fluorescence tubes, and
some seriously vintage led displays I picked up at a community parking lot
sale one day.
 The names most recognizable on the displays are Honeywell, T.I., and
Sperry-Univac. T.I. is not so surprising but the other two act as a reminder
of what can happen to a company that is at the top of the heap in an industy
but fails to pay attention to trends and customer needs and gets wiped out of
the running for the duration. Honeywell was easily in a position to control a
major percentage of the consumer PC industry and they let slip it right through
their fingers. Had they decided to build on their already high market share of
the mainframe computer industry and expanded to the consumer PC industry
they would be a house hold name in the industry today. Same with Sperry-Univac
but overly diversifying was ultimately their downfall. Mostly due to failed
contracts with US Military related programs and the end of the cold war.
It's a shame Honeywell didn't take the plunge. I could easily see myself
explaining to friends that I want to rush home and get some work dome on my
Honeywell 2000 Mark IV Super Computer system. I could not with a straight
face say the same thing about wanting to go home to play with my Apple :)


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Lance Birch <lan### [at] usanet> wrote:
: P.S.  for (a=0;a<=10000000000;a++) {write ("PLEASE!!! ")}

  No, no! This way:

#declare a=0;
#while(a<=10000000000)
  #debug "PLEASE!!! "
  #declare a=a+1;
#end

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):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:04:19 +1000, Lance Birch <lan### [at] usanet> wrote:
>P.S.  for (a=0;a<=10000000000;a++) {write ("PLEASE!!! ")}

What language is this?  It looks like C, but there's no
'write' function in C.  Oh, and if a is an integer type,
you better have 64-bit integers or it'll never terminate :)

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Ron Parker <par### [at] my-dejanewscom> wrote:
: On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:04:19 +1000, Lance Birch <lan### [at] usanet> wrote:
:>P.S.  for (a=0;a<=10000000000;a++) {write ("PLEASE!!! ")}

: What language is this?  It looks like C, but there's no
: 'write' function in C.

  Certainly not in ANSI C, but in the industry standards XPG4 and XPG4-UNIX
yes (but the syntax is different, though).
  And of course it could have been defined earlier... :)

:  Oh, and if a is an integer type,
: you better have 64-bit integers or it'll never terminate :)

  Perhaps he is using a long int in an alpha.

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main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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> 
> P.S.  for (a=0;a<=10000000000;a++) {write ("PLEASE!!! ")}
> 
Hmm.
#while(1=1)
  #debug "PLEASE!!! \n"  
#end

Whee...
:-)

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//Spider
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What I can do and what I could do, I just don't know anymore
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Hmm, no. I can say that I'd hang tehre, and read, and post, just because i can
:-)

ohh, my age? sowwy.


Anthony Bennett wrote:
> 
> I was just tossing around ideas in my head this morning while getting
> ready for school, and this one came up. Why not make a discussion group
> called povray.teens for all of those who are less old than most of you.
> If Lance's survey brings up enough of us, perhaps we can talk of our
> problems, our growing up with pov, and post our own images, sort of like
> a text and binaries group in one. So, what do you think? Is there a big
> enough group of teens to fill a group?

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        [ spi### [at] bahnhofse ]-[ http://www.bahnhof.se/~spider/ ]
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                "Marian"
        By: "Sisters Of Mercy"

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he he he, now can someone show it to me in ADA 95?  ;-)

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Java Script :)

It's actually not really correct, it should say document.write...... and
also should be formatted properly (that was just for Ken ;-)

Can someone show me it in ADA 95?  he he he

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Hey, I'm not ADVANCED enough to program in C++ yet!  he he he, well
actually, I can do a bit, but not enough to make anything really
interesting... I'm better at the smaller languages, like VB (at least it's
actually COMPILED now!!!), JavaScript, VBScript and of course MAXScript...

Although I have made a few interesting things in my time... like an
encryption program called Thermal and some interesting proggies that
generated Persian domes... Also with the help of some of Dan Farmer's old
code buried deep in the Official POV-Ray CD-ROM I made a nice wireframe
graphics display engine... and I've produced 2 interactive CD-ROMs... but
that's really about it for me for the moment, until I learn something more
inpressive like ADA... then I'll REALLY start having fun :))))))

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