Yes, and pastichio is reall good too.. especially with stuffed grapeleaves
and spinach pie.
Here in Framingham we are very fortunate to have excellent dining from
the non-franchise food groups. Italian, Brazialian, and Greek are among
favorites as in Hunan and Korean.
Allison
From: Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Clearly OT (but what the hell...) (was: food
>On Nov 6, 14:47, Roger Merchberger wrote:
>
>> and 1 greek restaurant, which is extremely good but don't serve enough
>> (IMHO) choices in the way of greek food... They have gyros, kalamari, and
>a
>> few other dishes & the rest - american. (damn good american, but american
>> nonetheless...)
>> :-(
>> I'm continually begging them for new greek stuff - you can get a burger
>> anywhere, after all - and I was *finally* greeted with something new this
>> Saturday (don't recall the name, some type of lamb & beef dish with a
>> baked pancake-like topping - started with an "M") and it was fantastic!
>
>Moussaka? Layers of minced[1] lamb and fried aubergines[2] with eggs,
>greek yoghurt[3], and baked. Mmm, very nice! I had some last night.
>
>[1] you'd probably call that ground lamb
>[2] eggplant
>[3] thick yoghurt made from sheep's milk
>
>--
>Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>
On Nov 6, 14:47, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> (Oh, and as an aside, what's Haggis?)
Minced sheep's liver, lungs, and heart (the "pluck"), mixed with oatmeal,
suet, and spices, sewn into the sheep's stomach bag and boiled. I grew up
in Edinburgh with the stuff and I hate it, but many consider it a delicacy.
Traditionally served with boiled mashed potatoes ("tatties") and turnip
("neeps") and on special occasions like Burn's Night with a glass of
whisky. Search for "Macsween" on the web -- theirs are widely rated the
best.
I've only once seen it served for breakfast, thank goodness. I put that on
a par with the person I saw eat two raw onions with a cup of coffee for
breakfast.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
This time I think I can say without making an a%% of myself that Commodore also did that from
day one; most if not all their drives had CPU's to handle the IEEE interface ...
m
----------------Original Message--------------------
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:21:49 -0500
From: Jeff Hellige <jhellige(a)earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk
>The Atari 8-bit drives all had them that I can recall, Percom, Indus,
>Trak, etc.
The Indus GT was one nice drive and they made it for other
machines than just the Atari line. It was interesting to sit there
and listen to it while watching the track readout change. I've never
torn one apart to check but I'm told that they used a Z80 in the
drive to control everything which would be interesting since that'd
make the chip in the drive as powerful as the main CPU of the machine
it was attached to.
Jeff
On Nov 6, 14:47, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> and 1 greek restaurant, which is extremely good but don't serve enough
> (IMHO) choices in the way of greek food... They have gyros, kalamari, and
a
> few other dishes & the rest - american. (damn good american, but american
> nonetheless...)
> :-(
> I'm continually begging them for new greek stuff - you can get a burger
> anywhere, after all - and I was *finally* greeted with something new this
> Saturday (don't recall the name, some type of lamb & beef dish with a
> baked pancake-like topping - started with an "M") and it was fantastic!
Moussaka? Layers of minced[1] lamb and fried aubergines[2] with eggs,
greek yoghurt[3], and baked. Mmm, very nice! I had some last night.
[1] you'd probably call that ground lamb
[2] eggplant
[3] thick yoghurt made from sheep's milk
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
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Subject: Apple 11 c
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Yeah, chem sets are pretty tame now :( -- can't do many real reactions other
than make C02 from bicarb. My father was a chemist and added many chemicals
to the Gilbert set we had (more than 10 years old, so somewhat on topic). I
do shudder a bit to think of some of things we did, though, like playing
with big globs of mercury in our hands.
BTW, water glass is Sodium Silicate, not phenothalien. And carbon tet, not
benzene, was dry cleaning fluid. As kids, my brothers and I used carbon tet
in killing jars to gas butterflys for our collection. It is banned in most
places now, and benzene use is severely restricted, as it too is a strong
carcinogen and bad for your internal organs.
-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Blakeman [mailto:rhblakeman@kih.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 8:14 AM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Rubber Restorer...
And many of the classic sets have replacements for the original chemicals. A
friend bought a 1965 chemistry set and in place of phenothalien (water
glass) it was just plain water, as had the sulfur been filled with dry
mustard and confectioner's sugar mixed. No telling what else...
-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Douglas Quebbeman
-> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 7:37 AM
-> To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'
-> Subject: RE: Rubber Restorer...
->
->
-> > I wonder if children's chemistry sets still come with all the
-> > interesting chemicals?
->
-> For the most part, no... you have to buy the old chemistry
-> sets if you want those (many vintage chemistry sets trade
-> on E-Bay).
->
-> -dq
->
Of the instances I know of most one-off's never were from an assembly line
just attempts to change or demonstrate a concept.
The R&D group I worked with always was producing prototypes and
proof-of-concept devices. The proof-of-concept units were mostly breadboard
style with wires and components in any order and not in any form factor. A
prototype was then constructed, sometimes milled of plastic or aluminum, it
mimicked the final units appearance. The prototypes went through several
interations to make a manufacturable model that could be made within the
cost desired. Then the manufacturing engineers came in and tried to make it
repairable and assembleable.
The whole process is currently much compressed with the manufacturing
engineers included from the beginning to reduce cost and time-to-market.
Our group made medical microbiology devices designed by aerospace engineers,
way overengineered, and with more feedback sensors than you could believe.
We started out with PDP 11/05 , then migrated to 11/04. They eventually
wanted to replace our PDP-11/04, with VT52, based computer systems with
homegrown computer, terminal, and printer. Never implemented.
Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu
> I wonder if children's chemistry sets still come with all the
> interesting chemicals?
For the most part, no... you have to buy the old chemistry
sets if you want those (many vintage chemistry sets trade
on E-Bay).
-dq
Tony,
Faster as in is sub 150ns are fairly common and cheap. Whats
problemtic is that the ALU must do about 8-16 different operations
so that would be at least a 512kN part or larger.
Also 74(ALS,F,AS)381 in the 16 bit or wider range would be hard
pressed to do better than 50ns even with carry lookahead.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, November 05, 2001 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: CPU design at the gate level
>> How about programming an EPROM with a lookup
>> table to emulate an ALU?
>
>Sure, if you want one that takes 250ns or so to produce a result (the
>access time of most cheap EPROMS). The 74x181 is going to be rahter
>faster than that, I think.
>
>I have thought about using fast-ish RAMs (cache rams from old PC
>motherboards) as poor-man's programmable logic. It would run at a
>sensible speed, and wouldn't need proprietry programming tools.
>
>-tony
>
>Two thoughts: The WildCat BBS has (IIRC) the IMODEM protocol; contact
>the WildCat prople and ask them for just that single module (they
>want about $800 for the BBS source code).
I'll give them a try, thanks.
>Secondly... reverse engineering by setting up a second PC running
>any terminal emulator, try sending a file from the IMODEM-only device,
>surely it will respond to ACK/NAK... try NAKing some packets, ACK some
>others, dump the result, start hacking...
Humm... that's an idea. Lots of work, and maybe more than the project is
worth, but certainly an idea I will keep in mind for a day when I get
pissed off enough at the current interface.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
