Cool. Herndon. Is named after the Captain of the US Central America, which went down off South Carolina in 8000 feet of water in 1840 or so with a half billion dollars in federal reserve gold on it. All the passengers were saved as I recall. It was an old side wheel steamer and they hit a hurricane just this side of Cuba. Pounding into the seas caused the planks to flex and start leaking, which caused the ship to list, extinguishing the leeward boiler and lifting the windward wheel clear of the water. Miraculously their flares were seen and other ships stood by while she sank, offloading most of the passengers and crew.
But not the gold. That was recovered by ROV shortly after the wreck was located by side scan sonar. The team included a jazz saxophonist and was funded by an accounting firm from Ohio. The book is called Ship of Gold as I recall. Great read. Karl Sitting in his car waiting for the rear brakes to cool off enough for it to move again (must be the master after all). On Mon, Mar 23, 2020, 2:04 PM Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:09:04 -0400 Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > When I worked remotely I got a lot more done because I could focus on > > getting stuff done without distractions, and when I took a break I got > > that done then back to work. > > In 1989 - 1990, I worked remote from our house in Colorado Springs for a > company called AeroAstro, based in Herndon, Virginia. I designed the > digital hardware parts of the ALEXIS (Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging > Sensors) satellite. > > The person with whom I worked the most was in the San Fernando Valley > northwest of Los Angeles (who worked with me on the CPU board). I also > worked with a fellow about 25 miles north of Colorado Springs (who worked > on the RF hardware) and a fellow in the San Diego area (who did all the > software). > > To show the viability of that arrangement, the circuit boards with which > I was involved turned on perfectly and required no modifications; the > prototypes flew as space hardware. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
