John Trowbridge reported something similar in his (remarkable) 1907
paper "High Electromotive Force" about lightning
"We are beginning to realize, however, that 500 volts, accompanied by a
currrent of between 10 and 20 amperes is sufficient to destroy human
life. One compartment of the storag
wrote:
> It would have been a lot simpler to have just removed the enter key
> requirement
> from the program and operated it in a loop.
>
I am guessing the program was in assembly language and the vendor did not
provide the source code. It was difficult to tweak assembly object code
back then.
In reply to Alan Fletcher's message of Wed, 31 May 2017 17:18:20 -0700:
Hi,
It would have been a lot simpler to have just removed the enter key requirement
from the program and operated it in a loop.
>On Wed, 31 May 2017 18:04:23 -0400
>Jed Rothwell wrote:
>
>> Data General and the early micr
Getting back to Franklin, he pioneered many aspects of electricity. In one
of his less successful experiments, he almost killed himself with
electricity from a battery, in 1750. It sounds like a cold fusion
experiment gone bad. He was trying to electrocute a turkey. He wrote:
"I have lately made
On Wed, 31 May 2017 18:04:23 -0400
Jed Rothwell wrote:
> Data General and the early microcomputers had toggle switches and LED
> readouts of processor states. I never saw anyone use these controls, or read
> them for any purpose.
My boss, Milt Meinck, back in the early seventies did! When de
bobcook39...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I hope you are right about no muon radiation, but I would check LENR
> devices for muon releases and not rely on your authority.
>
It is not my authority; it is the authority of experiments. Obviously,
people have checked for all kinds of radiation. They have n
Axil Axil wrote:
There is a tried and true method that is used to avoid failure modes. When
> you build your LSI-11 computer systems, you used structured software
> development and unit level debugging. But you stated out a long time ago
> using machine code and fingerboned that machine code into
Cook
From: Jed Rothwell<mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 11:29 AM
To: Vortex<mailto:vortex-l@eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Great quote from Benjamin Franklin
Axil Axil mailto:janap...@gmail.com>> wrote:
A good engineer will imagine a billion ways in
There is a tried and true method that is used to avoid failure modes. When
you build your LSI-11 computer systems, you used structured software
development and unit level debugging. But you stated out a long time ago
using machine code and fingerboned that machine code into the computer
using toggl
Axil Axil wrote:
> A good engineer will imagine a billion ways in which an invention will
> fail so that invention is built to avoid all those failure modes.
>
It is not possible to avoid a billion failure modes, or even 100. A product
designed to avoid too many modes will not work. It will have
What Ben said about finding the truth in nature is valid, but finding what
will work in Engineering is a different issue.
A good engineer will imagine a billion ways in which an invention will fail
so that invention is built to avoid all those failure modes. The disciples
of Cassandra make the bes
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