> On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:
>
> > My wife sews (a lot!) and every now and then one of the cats will try to
> > eat some thread. One day we heard one of them making strange noises at
> > the litterbox. It turns out the cat had eaten a long thread, and it was
> > making its way out. We had to pull it out (slowly, to avoid internal
> > injuries to the cat and external injuries to us). There was at least a
> > foot of thread in there.
Eric-
Been there, done that, with christmas ribbons...
-dq
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Wright [mailto:dtwright@uiuc.edu]
> The manual of the motherboard for the first PC I built had a
> statement to the
> following effect on the second page:
> "This manual has been carefully for errors to make sure correct."
It is also vaguely amusing when the author of some software documents in
English (which I'm usually very thankful for, since it's my first language),
but normally speaks another language. (German and French, (other Latin
languages too) are exceptionally prone to this)
For instance, I had an old 3d modeler for the POV raytracer whose
documentation contained the following (more or less):
"PV3D now is a freeware."
There are also these from a (very good) Atari Lynx development page:
"Thanks to a simple error Atari made. As you (maybe) know, all the
Atari-carts have an encrypyed header and a check-sum over the complete
rom-image. This checksum is so da?? good that changing a single-bit,the
INSERT GAME message causes." (Care to guess the native language? :)
>From the same page:
"But 65C02-code is compact and even with C are good program possible."
I've even in English noticed, that German-speakers tend to their verbs on
the end of sentences put. :)
(No offense, of course, I don't speak three words of German, myself...)
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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On December 13, Chris Kennedy wrote:
> were to do that or not have a machine at all. The big problem
> is doing useful things in the absence of a memory mapping and
> protection unit of some sort (the Nova grew one early on, but
> I'm too ignorant of the PDP-8 family to know if such an option ever
> existed).
On an 8/e, I believe that'd be the Memory Extension and Timeshare
Control board. Among other things it drives the three high-order
address bits to go beyond 4KW of core, but if memory serves this is
more of a bank-switching scheme than anything else.
But hey, it works! :-) PDP8s are Good Food(tm).
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL
On December 12, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> If it topped out at 7 MBps, it was probably because the bus handshake was
> clocked with a CPU clock, in order to ensure the CPU would "see" the
> transitions.
I am reminded of my favorite piece of broken english, found in a
Taiwanese PeeCee motherboard manual many years ago:
"If use 387 coprocessor, the clocked by CPU clock."
No, I made no typos there. :-)
-Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com]
> I am reminded of my favorite piece of broken english, found in a
> Taiwanese PeeCee motherboard manual many years ago:
> "If use 387 coprocessor, the clocked by CPU clock."
> No, I made no typos there. :-)
I haven't had so much (documented) cheap imported hardware, but my favorite
is from a sound board:
"We make 100% sure that this is caused by a M/B bios bug. Please to update
the bios of the mainboard with the M/B manufacturer."
I was also amused once to see somebody who didn't speak English very well
(nor, it appears, know what SCSI stands for) mark some SCSI controllers with
a sign that said "SCASI."
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
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Hello. I take five minutes to review one thing that maybe somebody
could clear me:
I've checked the Usenet Oldnews Archive in
http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News.Archive/ and I saw the time limit
that appears in Google (15-May-1981) is applicable there too.
But I'm lightly surprised because some Newsgroups like FA.arpa-bboard
has MORE threads than the finally displayed in a search. By example,
this Usenet Group has 333 Threads but it only show 297 in a search.
Can be possible that could exists even more news before 1981-May-15
archived in Google but not available by the moment ?
Thanks and Greetings
Sergio
! From: Chad Fernandez [mailto:fernande@internet1.net]
!
.......
!
! My parents still have one cat that will eat/chew ribbon.... we have to
! be careful at Christmas. A cat of long ago would eat thread (for
! sewing). My mother pulled about a yard out of him one
! day...... he was
! eating it right off the spool and swallowing it!!
Sounds familiar. We can't leave Christmas presents around with bows on them.
Isabelle will rip them all off to play with them, and chew them to
nothingness...
--- David A Woyciesjes
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> >I always wondered why the 2 existed in the first place,
> since without a hard
> >drive and only .5mb of memory it was useless for anything other than
> >MacWorks.
>
> Once you take a look at your's, since you said it started
> life as a '2' and you upgraded it to a 2/5, would you mind sending
> me the model/serial/date numbers off of it?
No problem - I'll check it tonight and mail you on-list since it might be of
interest to others......
cheers
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> On December 13, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> > I had a cat lick pictures once. They'll eat/chew on the darndest things
> > if you let them. I think it is the taste..... something about the
> > chemicals must be salty tasting or something. It's not like cats are
> > chewy like dogs or rodents.
>
> Did anyone beside me read this wrong and laugh hysterically?
Rodents *are* chewy... have you never had squirrel?
-dq
Hi,
I know where there are probably several VAX 8600s and 8650s
and a good deal more stuff. My plan is to organize a treck
that runs from south-central US through mid-west to NY. So,
if you live along the way and dream of some big iron, here
is your chance. The thing would not be for the taking, but
presumably $200-$400 (just a bit above scrap value) would be
it.
regards,
-Gunther
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Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
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