USA paper currency used to be the size of punchcards. So, if one were to
have a LOT of it, you could use the same trays, and counting machines,
etc. Do you suppose that Hollerith had a lot of paper currency?
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote:
Actually, Hollerith designed his
From: Fred Cisin
Sent: Saturday, June 29, 2019 6:57 AM
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
>> US currency is very confusing to me. All the notes seem to be the same size
>> and colour, so you can't readily sort them. I mean, I know America doesn't
>> believe in helping people when
I’ve only just joined cctalk, so apologies for the delayed response to this
query from May, but I thought the information might be useful to others in
future.
I’m the person working on emulating MIPS workstations in MAME recently, and I’m
a fair way through getting the Rx3230 model to a fully
Anyone know what hardware was at NASA Ames in the late 70s? I've got
some tapes from there and would like to avoid guessing.
--Chuck
On 7/1/19 4:36 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
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>> I hereby grant permission for my images of 3M FileWare ("Twiggy")disk image
>> to be used under the terms of the
>> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
I just noticed the 3M disk has no index hole.
> I hereby grant permission for my images of 3M FileWare ("Twiggy")disk image
> to be used under the terms of the
> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
> images:http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/disk/twiggy/photos/3M_Fileware.jpg
> license:
>
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 4:58 PM David Griffith via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Someone informed me that the Fileware diskette image I uploaded to
> Wikipedia has unclear copyright status. See
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fileware-floppy.jpg. Would someone
> with a good
Someone informed me that the Fileware diskette image I uploaded to
Wikipedia has unclear copyright status. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fileware-floppy.jpg. Would someone
with a good specimen please scan it and upload to Wikipedia or send it to
me?
--
David Griffith
Oh, but we are proud of our unremembered heritage, and fiercely resist
change. We still use Fahrenheit. And efforts to "go metric" have made
little headway.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, dwight wrote:
Not every thing makes sense to go metric. Clearly bold sizes are better
off in fractional sizes. Also
> On Jul 1, 2019, at 2:10 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
> wrote:
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>>> A "Dime" is one tenth of a dollar. Or ten cents. Or $10 worth of drugs.
>>> The coin is 17.91mm diameter, and the smallest coin in circulation.
>>> A "Nickel" is five cents. or $5 worth of drugs.
>>> The coin is
ENOUGH ALREADY! Surely there must be better lists to carry on this
conversation.
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, dwight via cctalk wrote:
Not every thing makes sense to go metric. Clearly bold sizes are better off in
fractional sizes. Also for wrenches. I have to have 13, 14 and 15 mm wrenches.
Not every thing makes sense to go metric. Clearly bold sizes are better off in
fractional sizes. Also for wrenches. I have to have 13, 14 and 15 mm wrenches.
A 9/16 would have covered the entire range. I have a spot on my car that I need
a 23mm offset box wrench. What a pain.
Dwight
Now that the dollar coin is a different color than the quarter, they don't
end up mixed. But, the replacement of the Washington quarter, that even
included when they were silver, with the commemorative quarters means they
are now all different designs, and the Susan B. Anthony dollar coins no
I think the big difference between Sellam and a lot of people selling on, say,
eBay is that Sellam is One Of Us: He’s a collector and enthusiast himself, not
just someone hoping to make a buck off of a market in which they’re not
themselves a participant.
So the stuff that I’ve gotten from
> A few years ago, one of the motorsports events that I help organize used
> PayPal. The entry fee was around $1000-2000 (depending on the type of
> entry) and I think we got around 50 entries that year. Most of the
> competitors pay their entry fee on the last day of the "early entry"
> deadline
On 7/1/19 10:09 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
Maybe for you. I did a group purchase of tickets for a club I am a
member of. Almost everyone paid me for their tickets paid with checks.
I help organize motorsports events; my expenses are reimbursed with checks.
Paypal seems to be
On 7/1/19 10:01 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
I sold a $3500 car once for cash to a guy who sold his goods at a booth
at fairs and shows. He received lots and lots of $20 bills in payment,
so that is what he paid me with. I kept
I'll also vouch for Sellam. His prices are a bit higher than I might
prefer, but he's a straight dealer as far as I've ever seen; I bought
an Apple IIc from him and he gave me no trouble at all about
exchanging it when the board turned out to be cracked.
> Maybe for you. I did a group purchase of tickets for a club I am a
> member of. Almost everyone paid me for their tickets paid with checks.
> I help organize motorsports events; my expenses are reimbursed with checks.
Paypal seems to be king for this sort of thing around here.
--
Will
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 17:46, Alan Perry via cctalk
wrote:
> I sold a $3500 car once for cash to a guy who sold his goods at a booth
> at fairs and shows. He received lots and lots of $20 bills in payment,
> so that is what he paid me with. I kept the cash instead of depositing
> it in the bank
On 7/1/19 5:01 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote:
In every other country I've visited or lived in -- about 30 or 40 of
them -- banknotes are all different sizes, so that totally blind
people can sort by size if they have a few of them. I daresay the very
skilled can do it by absolute, not
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 15:26, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Checks can be relatively convenient and cheap compared to other options. I
> can (for free) send a check of any size to anyone I want by filling out a
> form on my bank's website to pay someone (mostly limited by my account's
> balance).
On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 8:01 AM William Donzelli via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> That is mostly the case here as well. Most under-40 people do not have
> a checkbook anymore. In my business, I get maybe two payments per year
> with checks - well under 1/10 of a percent of total
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 14:01, William Donzelli wrote:
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> US currency is the most most seriously counterfeited in the world, due
> to being useful almost anywhere. This is why the bills are not very
> distinctive - you are supposed to look at them. Most counterfeits are
> good, but not good
> In every other country I've visited or lived in -- about 30 or 40 of
> them -- banknotes are all different sizes, so that totally blind
> people can sort by size if they have a few of them. I daresay the very
> skilled can do it by absolute, not relative, size. Sighted people can
> and do do it
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 15:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
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> USA makes a pretense of accommodating disabilities, but is actually pretty
> hostile to the disabled.
:-(
> The "new" paper currency, that is s'posedly good for blind people has
> slightly different shades of the same colors.
(!)
On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 13:39, William Donzelli wrote:
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> Your knowledge is way out of date.
I was first there about 25y ago, and last there about 17y ago. The
much-vaunted redesign was, to my European eyes, so subtle as to be
indistinguishable. No, I'm not kidding.
> US currency changed about
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