Re: [9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Bruce Ellis
I guess Stephen should update his webpage. He's quite a specialized tinkerer. He built a huge analogue synthesizer for the Smashing Pumpkins, so big the photo he showed me was taken in a car lot. I had test audio of his S&H module as a ring-tone on my old nokia, which drove the nurses in hospital n

Re: [9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
>From a recent twitter thread -- droppings?! :) -- I got the impression that smj wasn't at Comm. Museum anymore. Coincidentally, on the same thread I found out that by a series of happy accidents my old 5620 ended up in a nice home, restored to its original beauty. The same guy has done some amaz

Re: [9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Shane Morris
Research was always fun. I remember helping out with the Optus Flash-192 tests many years ago, giving the senior engineers a bit of a hand patching crap together and all that. Learnt a whole heap out of it. I think we've clocked 100Gbps over a single fibre link now, the -192 was 80Gbps back then.

Re: [9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Prof Brucee
Thanks to you too. Fortunately working in research is perhaps the best part of the telephony system. As for editors, I used sam when I was working at Google. My esteemed coworkers used vim. brucee On 27/04/2017 1:35 PM, "Shane Morris" wrote: > He who convinces himself he don't need to learn fro

Re: [9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Shane Morris
He who convinces himself he don't need to learn from history should read about the fall of the Roman Empire a little. But yeah, be damned if I'll ever work for the phone company again. Only the railways was a more thankless job. It is a little pleasant to visit ones memories for some nostalgia fr

Re: [9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Prof Brucee
Your bad fortune. On 27/04/2017 1:13 PM, "Winston Kodogo" wrote: > Well, such are my limitations, I don't give two short smegs about the Blit > or "The Labs", Johnny come latelelys that they are, promoting new editors > such as "ed". Instead of edt, the one true editor. But when I was a lad, > t

Re: [9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Winston Kodogo
Well, such are my limitations, I don't give two short smegs about the Blit or "The Labs", Johnny come latelelys that they are, promoting new editors such as "ed". Instead of edt, the one true editor. But when I was a lad, these many years ago, we did have to pick up the phone - without dial, there

Re: [9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Shane Morris
Dear God, big old working exchanges?! We had a tiny little relay logic step by step PABX at trade school, adjusting her was punishment detail. Well, it *was* until they worked out I actually enjoyed getting the old girl to make party tricks... I wonder if I *am* actually allowed into the US these

[9fans] Blit

2017-04-26 Thread Bruce Ellis
For those interested in the Blit and other stuff from the labs, particularly if you are in the Seattle area, you might like to contact s...@sdf.lonestar.org who is the Associated Curator of the Communications Museum. He gave me a tour and I introduced him to games/crabs. Big old telephone exchange