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#1
04-03-2020
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The whole purpose of my post was to dispel the misconception some people have that Doppler radar is something new or something special. I was merely stating, for those interested, what Doppler means. My post was meant to convey the fact that radar since its inception has worked on the Doppler effect. The main difference now is in the signal processing capabilities of equipment whereby more information can be gathered. My post in no way was to insinuate that you did not understand what is the Doppler effect or how radar functions.
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#2
04-04-2020
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Did not know this font had been around for over 60 years. The slide show accompanying the article is interesting. No wonder it seems like it is everywhere…
 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/he...ars/index.html (Below is an Apple “Mac” circa 1984. My current students think dinosaurs roamed the earth back then.  )
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#3
05-05-2020
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How many of you owned one of these? Although we had Macs like the one above in school, my “first” Mac was this one. A “Biondi Blue” model purchased in 1999. If I remember right you could get them in at least 5 colors.
I also opted for the 3 ½” external floppy drive which connected through a USB interface. Steve Jobs did not want anyone to use “floppies” as he envisioned an interconnected world via the “Internet” (quotes because back then it was a still a “thing”…  ). But as you can see, there still are wires! And a small CRT display.  Wonder what was up with that? Just a few years later that would all change.  It came with a “Jurassic Park” style game. I also had Microsoft Office for it so I could use Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. “Nanosaur” was released April 6, 1998. And an update was offered in 2002 (Nanosaur Extreme). My nieces would probably like Nanosaur. Too bad my iMac ended up in a landfill many years ago. I still have the 3 ½” floppy in my office… just in case. It has come in handy. My current students have never even used one.
Last edited by a9127; 05-05-2020 at 10:27 AM.
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#4
06-25-2020
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How many of these can you guess? This appeared in one of my "clickbait" ads this morning.
 Many people still have "vintage porn" in some of these formats. (The only one I'm not 100% sure of is the small black cartridge with the red stripe in the center. If it's what I think it is, they were used for digital recording and computer backup. Showing my age on the others I guess. Either that or I'm a "student of technology." Hey it's my job... )
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#5
06-25-2020
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#6
08-05-2020
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That small black w/ red stripe looks like an old DAT cartridge. I still have a Panther mini 2000 DAT drive (SCSI) and a few cartridges but I haven't used it in years.
While i never owned a name brand desktop PC I've used the original compaq portable (with the little built in 9" green screen), IBM XT & AT, compaq 386, Apple IIe (with a microsoft softcard to make it a CPM machine), commodore 64 with tape and diskette drives, and still have a couple old ST412/MFM hard drives. I still have original IBM DOS 2.1 and 3.1 manuals & IBM Basic 3.0 manuals, and lots more. When I switched to IBM ThinkPads over 20 years ago I always kept the old ones and have them rtom the 600 and 760 series (late 90s) and T series from T21 through T (&W) 530. Anyone remember ARCnet, or Corvus Omninet? Token ring - it wasn't even a ring configuration. It was really laid out just like star Ethernet (which we all use now). Never used the original "thick" Ethernet - that was for very large installations. I did use and run lots of thin or "cheaper"net BNC connected coax Ethernet before the star configuration took over.
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Man, I'm gettin' too old for this shit...
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08-05-2020
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