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MarkA wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:22:20 +0000, Fred^4 wrote:
>> MarkA wrote:
>>>On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:28:08 +0000, Legitimate Rape wrote:
>>>> I also miss the Ohio Scientific Challenger III that I had and wish I
>>>> had held on to all of them. I think I had a dozen of them at one time.
>>>I just found a web site dedicated to preserving all the old manuals, etc,
>>>from the Heathkit kits. Talk about nostalgia! It reminded me of the
>>>hours I spent, trusty soldering iron in hand, building my computer in the
>>>days when everyone would ask, "What do you want a computer for?"
>> Yep, it was a useless toy. When I moved a data file from a CP/M Z80
>> computer in one room to a CP/M computer in anoter room using the fiber
>> optic cable under the carpet at just over 1 megabit a second, my father
>> was like, "Um, why?"
>It reminds me of Carl Sagan's story of when he was a kid, just getting
>interested in astronomy. After asking every adult he knew about the stars
>you could see in the sky at night, none of them could answer his
>questions. But, what really struck him, was that nobody else seemed to
>think that it was something worth being curious about.
Yeah, it's a wonder any progress is ever made. Sucks getting old and
finding one's comfortable rut in life.
I remember my history teacher in High School totally confounded by bat
echolocation. He got it all wrong, every bit of it. By the time I was
through explaining it to him his response was "you failed this semester.
The reason? You never argue with the man giving you your grade."
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