Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes:
> It turns out that one of the first things you do during a coup in a > small central/south american county is take over or disable the > radio-telphone base stations. [Back then the base stations were much > higher power and covered much larger areas than a cellular base > station does these days.] Yep:: Then when I got my first research lab, guess what was our first 'Big Donation' ? A semi trailer full of every make of those old at&t unix systems; from 3B2's own up the ladder to working switchgear. We wiped them clean and put Mt. Xinu unix (BSD) on them just to tick off the at&t folks.... Funny thing was they just kept giving us more and more equipment... Kids now a days do not get to play with the 'toys' we did in college. At poker flats [1] we got to shoot off rockets into the ionosphere. Try that one today.... The father of the modern rocket [2] taught my son Multi-Variable Calculus.... Small world when you get down to it.... Want to see the latest in Mach 7 guns? cheers! James [1] http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/ [2] http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/lebanons-forgotten-space-race-in-1961-manoug-manougian-aimed-the-middle-east-at-the-stars
