[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 11:29, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > >  > >>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 2:09 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 08:14, Fritz Mueller via cctalk wrote: >>> >>>  On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Christian Gauger-Cosgrove via cctalk
Apologies for the off-topic. On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 at 15:34, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote: > I got a government official to give me the legal definition and > published it on wikipedia, quoting the official source. > Was it Measurement Canada's complaint form? Because they - that is,

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2022-10-19 Thread Anders Nelson via cctalk
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[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
Hear hear! On Wed, Oct 19, 2022, 3:21 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Well, that's because the "WIKI" in "Wikipedia" stands for "We Impose > Knowledge Interpretation". > > Sadly, the promise of the internet has been utterly destroyed by > megalomaniacs, zealots,

[cctalk] Re: FM/Armstrong was: [ Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 3:10 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > Indeed, FM was one of the undesired side effects of AM unless you had a > well-isolated or crystal-controlled frequency source for your transmitter. I suppose so, but Idzerda's transmitter produces FM with essentially

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
Hear! hear!  When I was teaching college I told my students I would cross out any references to wikipedia in a paper. I saw on Wikipedia that there is no legal definition of a pint of beer in Canada. I got a government official to give me the legal definition and published it on wikipedia,

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
Well, that's because the "WIKI" in "Wikipedia" stands for "We Impose Knowledge Interpretation". Sadly, the promise of the internet has been utterly destroyed by megalomaniacs, zealots, and abject morons. It's up to people like us to preserve history as it actually happened, and not as the

[cctalk] Re: FM/Armstrong was: [ Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
Indeed, FM was one of the undesired side effects of AM unless you had a well-isolated or crystal-controlled frequency source for your transmitter. As far as detection goes, a simple AM "slope detector" sufficed in most cases for getting intelligible audio. --Chuck

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 2:09 PM, Alan Perry via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On Oct 19, 2022, at 08:14, Fritz Mueller via cctalk >> wrote: >> >>  >>> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk >>> wrote: >>> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of FM

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Alan Perry via cctalk
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 08:14, Fritz Mueller via cctalk > wrote: > >  >> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk >> wrote: >> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of FM radio, >> in Holland in 1919 (no, not by Armstrong in the USA in the late 1920s).

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Ali via cctalk
> Florida seems to be particularly creative, too: pay your contractor, > contractor doesn't pay their supplier, supplier puts lien on _your_ > house for the money owed. Want to keep your house? Better pay again > and then try to extract that money from the contractor later by > way of the courts.

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 11:14 AM, Fritz Mueller wrote: > > >> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk >> wrote: >> ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of FM radio, >> in Holland in 1919 (no, not by Armstrong in the USA in the late 1920s). > > That

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Stuff Received via cctalk
On 2022-10-19 10:06, Raphaël Jacquot via cctalk wrote: Le 19/10/2022 à 15:50, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk a écrit : Florida seems to be particularly creative, too: pay your contractor, contractor doesn't pay their supplier, supplier puts lien on _your_ house for the money owed. Want to

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Fritz Mueller via cctalk
> On Oct 19, 2022, at 6:16 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk > wrote: > ...a couple of years ago I wrote an article about the invention of FM radio, > in Holland in 1919 (no, not by Armstrong in the USA in the late 1920s). That sounds interesting, Paul — I’m only familiar with the usual

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread William Donzelli via cctalk
> Owe the local government a few bucks in unpaid tax? They steal your > house (well, technically not - they put a lien on it and then foreclose). Yes, if you do not pay you taxes (or rent) - you SHOULD lose your land after some amount of time. What I am talking about is Eminent Domain (in the

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Raphaël Jacquot via cctalk
Le 19/10/2022 à 15:50, Alexander Schreiber via cctalk a écrit : Florida seems to be particularly creative, too: pay your contractor, contractor doesn't pay their supplier, supplier puts lien on _your_ house for the money owed. Want to keep your house? Better pay again and then try to extract

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Alexander Schreiber via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:36:58AM -0400, William Donzelli via cctalk wrote: > Don't be pedantic. You know what I mean. > > Anyway, in the US, there are *significant* barriers to cross for > people taking your land. Owe the local government a few bucks in unpaid tax? They steal your house (well,

[cctalk] Re: Great Vintage Computer Heist of 2012

2022-10-19 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 18, 2022, at 11:51 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk > wrote: > >> I like how having the old hardware gives physical "witness" and "evidence" >> that all the old stories are true - people did invent and create these >> things, they didn't just appear from aliens. > > Indeed. I am teaching