On 09/10/2016 07:31 AM, couryho...@aol.com wrote:
> Transparent aluminum exists. It is called sapphire. Sapphire is
> the crystalline form of aluminum oxide. If you recall, Apple was
> thinking of using it for the touch screen face of the iphone.
Pardon my pickiness, but sapphire isn't alum
You bet it does! My friend Jim Early explained to me how it was
used on the Bell Solar Batteries ( solar cells) for TELSTAR
Ed Sharpe PDP-8 SN18
In a message dated 9/9/2016 7:55:19 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
d...@dustyoldcomputers.com writes:
On Thu, Sep 8,
yep!
In a message dated 9/8/2016 10:46:36 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
p...@pski.net writes:
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Christian Liendo wrote:
>
> The only "computer" related thing I can think of is the scene from
> Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where Scotty works on the Macin
you mean when he picks up the mouse and says hello computer into it?
yea I fell outta my seat!
Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
In a message dated 9/8/2016 10:31:59 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
clie...@gmail.com writes:
The only "computer" related thing I can t
Thank ${deity} we still have those.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:21 PM, ben wrote:
> On 9/9/2016 7:58 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
>>
>>> Actually it actually *does* exist and is reasonable to manufacture.
>>> Here’s the
>>> article:
>>> http://www.nrl.navy.
On 9/9/2016 7:58 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
Actually it actually *does* exist and is reasonable to manufacture.
Here’s the
article:
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2015/transparent-armor-from-nrl-spinel-could-also-ruggedize-your-smart-phone
It
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 6:58 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
>> Actually it actually *does* exist and is reasonable to manufacture. Here’s
>> the
>> article:
>> http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2015/transparent-armor-from-nrl-spinel-could-also-rug
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Guy Sotomayor Jr wrote:
Actually it actually *does* exist and is reasonable to manufacture. Here’s the
article:
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/media/news-releases/2015/transparent-armor-from-nrl-spinel-could-also-ruggedize-your-smart-phone
It’s basically a sintered process where t
Transparent aluminum exists. It is called sapphire. Sapphire is the
crystalline form of aluminum oxide. If you recall, Apple was thinking of
using it for the touch screen face of the iphone.
On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Peter Cetinski wrote:
Ah yes, but can you make in sheets 60 feet by 10 feet by 1 in
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Doug Ingraham wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
>
>>
>>> On Sep 9, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Doug Ingraham
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Transparent aluminum exists. It is called sapphire. Sapphire is the
>>> crystalline form of aluminum oxide.
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
>
> > On Sep 9, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Doug Ingraham
> wrote:
> >
> > Transparent aluminum exists. It is called sapphire. Sapphire is the
> > crystalline form of aluminum oxide. If you recall, Apple was thinking of
> > using it for the touch
> On Sep 9, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Doug Ingraham wrote:
>
> Transparent aluminum exists. It is called sapphire. Sapphire is the
> crystalline form of aluminum oxide. If you recall, Apple was thinking of
> using it for the touch screen face of the iphone.
>
Ah yes, but can you make in sheets 60
tor 2016-09-08 klockan 13:03 -0400 skrev Murray McCullough:
> What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
> so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
> things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
> a television show of 5
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
>
>
> Thats why I have no personal plans for a battery/electric car at any point
> in the near future. Batteries truly need to make a quantum leap forward
> before I would be sold on them.
BEV's are practical today. Much safer than gasoline.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:34 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Murray McCullough wrote:
> And use so much transparent aluminum.
>
Transparent aluminum exists. It is called sapphire. Sapphire is the
crystalline form of aluminum oxide. If you recall, Apple was thinking of
using it for
It's funny you bring up Alexa and Siri. I read an article a few days
ago about how Majel Barrett, the voice of the ship's computer from TOS
to the first reboot movie (and Gene Roddenberry's wife) recorded a
phonetic library shortly before her death. I know that Google at one
point had a speech syst
08, 2016 10:26 PM
To: gene...@classiccmp.org ; discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: 50 yrs. of Star Trek!
Till some big leap forward appears in batteries, or something
else, I'm personally hitching my horse wagon behind hydrogen power.
Jerry
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On 09/ 8/16 07:05 PM, TeoZ wrote:
They never really show acceleration and deceleration onboard a spaceship
affecting the crew so why bother with seat belts (that would be a pain for the
actors to use)? Besides what good would they do if you actually hit something
large in space at the speed of
On 09/ 8/16 07:14 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, TeoZ wrote:
They never really show acceleration and deceleration onboard a spaceship
affecting the crew so why bother with seat belts (that would be a pain for the
actors to use)? Besides what good would they do if you actually hit so
On 09/ 8/16 06:07 PM, Ali wrote:
Star Trek:TNG brought us our first view of Apple iPads.
Jerry
Except of course in the 24th century the concept of storing more than one
piece of data on the same pad did not exist. So each report had to be on a
separate pad. And of course data could be transf
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, TeoZ wrote:
They never really show acceleration and deceleration onboard a spaceship
affecting the crew so why bother with seat belts (that would be a pain for
the actors to use)? Besides what good would they do if you actually hit
something large in space at the speed of li
cool if somebody comes up with a batter that hold
crazy amounts of energy and would not short out in your pocket.
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On
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 04:07:45PM -0700, Ali wrote:
> > Star Trek:TNG brought us our first view of Apple iPads.
> >
> > Jerry
>
> Except of course in the 24th century the concept of storing more than one
> piece of data on the same pad did not exist. So each report had to be on a
> separate pad.
On 09/08/2016 03:54 PM, Electronics Plus wrote:
>
> My physician uses a Palm Pilot type device specifically to look up
> medication doses and drug interactions. He knows the fellow who wrote
> the program, who had the device that was used in sick bay in mind
> when he wrote it. The telemetry unit
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:37:35PM +, Rich Alderson wrote:
> ("Wagon Train to the Stars", as Roddenberry envisioned it.)
Well, specifically, how he sold the concept to the networks.
mcl
> Star Trek:TNG brought us our first view of Apple iPads.
>
> Jerry
Except of course in the 24th century the concept of storing more than one
piece of data on the same pad did not exist. So each report had to be on a
separate pad. And of course data could be transferred everywhere except
between
My physician uses a Palm Pilot type device specifically to look up medication
doses and drug interactions. He knows the fellow who wrote the program, who had
the device that was used in sick bay in mind when he wrote it. The telemetry
unit I wore in the hospital last week is another take off on
Star Trek:TNG brought us our first view of Apple iPads.
Jerry
On 09/ 8/16 12:03 PM, Murray McCullough wrote:
What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
things but how many actually happened or am I e
From: Murray McCullough
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 10:04 AM
> What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
> so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
> things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
> a television s
It's interesting to me that the Enterprise computers were effectively
command-and-control grammars, albeit somewhat freeform regarding the
commands (e.g., "Provide information about such-and-so" with no paramters
as to *what* knowledge). There were only a select few episodes about
self-aware or se
On 9/8/2016 10:41 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 9/8/16 10:03 AM, Murray McCullough wrote:
What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
so ubiquitous today?
The main thing that comes to mind is how often images or references to TOS
appear in mid-70's computing magazines.
I
On 09/08/2016 11:01 AM, Thomas Kula wrote:
> I remember reading, ages ago, that the ubiquitous 'memory tapes'
> they were always shoving into techno things on TOS were about the
> size of a 3.5" disk. And, after they started to become common, I
> remember thinking that USB 'thumb drives' were abou
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 01:03:36PM -0400, Murray McCullough wrote:
> What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
> so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
> things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
> a television sho
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:38 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> On 09/08/2016 10:25 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
>
>> A few examples are the PADD (iPad and other tablets) and the
>> Communicator (Mobile Phones).
>
> Maybe, but the computer "brain" IIRC was always shipboard. Dick Tracy
> had the 2-way wrist
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:31 PM, Christian Liendo wrote:
>
> The only "computer" related thing I can think of is the scene from
> Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where Scotty works on the Macintosh
> trying to show transparent aluminum.
>
> In my own humble opinion it is one of the best scenes ever
On 09/08/2016 10:25 AM, Peter Cetinski wrote:
> A few examples are the PADD (iPad and other tablets) and the
> Communicator (Mobile Phones).
Maybe, but the computer "brain" IIRC was always shipboard. Dick Tracy
had the 2-way wrist radio decades before.
Perhaps in years to come, the tricorder m
On 9/8/16 10:03 AM, Murray McCullough wrote:
> What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
> so ubiquitous today?
The main thing that comes to mind is how often images or references to TOS
appear in mid-70's computing magazines.
On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Murray McCullough wrote:
What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
a television show of 50 years ago?
ALL of
The only "computer" related thing I can think of is the scene from
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, where Scotty works on the Macintosh
trying to show transparent aluminum.
In my own humble opinion it is one of the best scenes ever from a Star
Trek movie or show.
> On Sep 8, 2016, at 1:03 PM, Murray McCullough
> wrote:
>
> What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
> so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
> things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
> a television show of
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Murray McCullough
wrote:
> What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
> so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
> things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
> a television show of 50
What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
a television show of 50 years ago?
Happy computing!
Murray
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