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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Post_Office
>
> I saw that, but I didn't think it had any relevance to the conversation.
> You mean to tell me the post office controls the phone system?
Yep. In the good old days, the GPO ran the postal system *and* the
telephone system. Indeed, the GPO manufactured a wide range of
electrical and electronic components. A bit like Radio Shack, 1920s style.
Why, the Colossus computer was built using only off-the-shelf parts from
the GPO parts catalogue!
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>> Did you have to wait several minutes for the tubes to warm up?
>
> No. I'm not *that* old. :-P
Although, saying that... The TV at school *did* take about 10 seconds or
so to warm up. Hmm, I wonder why? It was colour, so it's obviously
solid-state. Weird...
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Hmm, I wonder why? It was colour, so it's obviously solid-state.
Errr, no?
It probably just didn't keep the coil in the CRT warm. Most modern "instant
on" TVs use a fair amount of current to keep the CRT's cathode hot, if
they're actually *instant* on.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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On Wed, 12 May 2010 21:49:04 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> It was colour, so it's obviously
> solid-state. Weird...
Not all colour TVs were solid state; I grew up with one that was tube-
based.
Jim
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>> I could argue that you could live in a dark hole under a rock somewhere
>> and still know who Jane Goodall or Richard Dawkins was, too.
>
> Good luck with that. Dawkins I've heard of, Goodall I haven't.
Ditto.
But I think it may be culture-speecific, and even "oh but I'm talking only
of the western world" is too broad. Jim, have *you* heard of Favaloro? :)
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On Wed, 12 May 2010 20:49:45 -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>> I could argue that you could live in a dark hole under a rock
>>> somewhere and still know who Jane Goodall or Richard Dawkins was, too.
>>
>> Good luck with that. Dawkins I've heard of, Goodall I haven't.
>
> Ditto.
>
> But I think it may be culture-speecific, and even "oh but I'm talking
> only of the western world" is too broad. Jim, have *you* heard of
> Favaloro? :)
Not really, but then again, I don't keep up on current events when it
comes to surgeons (and I personally don't watch a lot of news myself).
Jim
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On 05/11/10 05:45, Mike Raiford wrote:
>>> Or Carl Sagan, for that matter.
>>
>> Who?
>>
>
> Inventor of the communications satellite, physicist, cosmologist ... and
> sci-fi writer....
Communications Satellite?
Methinks you have two writers mixed up.
And he sucked as a sci-fi writer.
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realize it was your money to start with.
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On 05/11/10 05:47, Mike Raiford wrote:
> On 5/8/2010 5:48 PM, clipka wrote:
>
>> Strangely enough, Einstein himself had a kind of "pop star" status at
>> his time. Science was considered sort of "sexy" back then.
>
> Why can't we get back to putting people who actually contribute to the
> better understanding of the world around us back on the pedestal instead
> of placing vacuous celebrities and sports stars on a pedestal?
Back to...? When did this ever happen?
--
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realize it was your money to start with.
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On 13/05/2010 7:34 AM, Neeum Zawan wrote:
> On 05/11/10 05:45, Mike Raiford wrote:
>>>> Or Carl Sagan, for that matter.
>>>
>>> Who?
>>>
>>
>> Inventor of the communications satellite, physicist, cosmologist ... and
>> sci-fi writer....
>
> Communications Satellite?
>
> Methinks you have two writers mixed up.
>
> And he sucked as a sci-fi writer.
>
>
Sir Arthur would agree. ;-)
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Best Regards,
Stephen
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>> Back when I used to watch TV, nobody had Internet access yet. To find out
>> if there was anything on, you switch the TV through all 6 channels and
>> see if you see anything good.
>
> Did you have to wait several minutes for the tubes to warm up? Turn on the
> TV five minutes before the hour or risk missing the opening minutes of the
> show?
When I was a child my computer had booted before the picture came on :-)
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