What device to use with the InReach?

On Friday, March 15, 2013 1:34:53 PM UTC-4, JS wrote:
Eric, this might work.

http://tinyurl.com/pc8h5

Jim

Cool. One card per turnpoint. Manually sorted/indexed for your easy access. "Aww crap, can't find turnpoint #2 - it must've slipped behind my back".

Cool. One card per turnpoint. Manually sorted/indexed for your easy access. "Aww crap, can't find turnpoint #2 - it must've slipped behind my back".

Using punched paper tape would solve that problem, Erik. Same technology, different medium.

Chip Bearden
ASW 24 "JB"
U.S.A.

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:17:26 -0700, chip.bearden wrote:

Cool. One card per turnpoint. Manually sorted/indexed for your easy
access. "Aww crap, can't find turnpoint #2 - it must've slipped behind
my back".

Using punched paper tape would solve that problem, Erik. Same
technology, different medium.

There's a problem: there's no stairwell in most gliders. I used to work
with paper tape and the stair-well is essential. If you get a large roll
tangled, e.g. drop it and have the centre fall out, the quick fix is to
hold one end, dump the rest down the stair well and wind it up again.
OTOH I can imagine loose tape in a cockpit trussing the pilot like a
turkey ready for Thanksgiving.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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We had some machines that had to be booted from punched tape. We did it so
often that we used mylar tape! We also had a hand-held, battery powered,
winder up thingie to wind it back up and then wrap a rubber band around it.
Ah... The days of core memory...

I wonder how that punched mylar tape would work as a combined control
seal/turbulator...


"Martin Gregorie" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:17:26 -0700, chip.bearden wrote:

Cool. One card per turnpoint. Manually sorted/indexed for your easy
access. "Aww crap, can't find turnpoint #2 - it must've slipped behind
my back".

Using punched paper tape would solve that problem, Erik. Same
technology, different medium.

There's a problem: there's no stairwell in most gliders. I used to work
with paper tape and the stair-well is essential. If you get a large roll
tangled, e.g. drop it and have the centre fall out, the quick fix is to
hold one end, dump the rest down the stair well and wind it up again.
OTOH I can imagine loose tape in a cockpit trussing the pilot like a
turkey ready for Thanksgiving.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

1957, Holloman AFB, NM, Univac 1103A, 5000 - 7000 vacuum tubes, 4096 words core memory (and IIRC, some electrostatic memory). One 4k magnetic drum mass memory plus six Uniservo tape drives. OAT typically 120F. Air conditioning kept computer room at 60F but MTTF was only 6 - 8 hours. Acquired what turned out to be one of life's most useless skills, testing and replacing 12AX7 vacuum tubes.

Purpose of 1103A, data reduction from missile tests. Some target drones became gliders. Some guided missiles became unguided. Many just vanished. Glad we were in a bunker. Lt.Col. Howard Ebersole and some other guys were trying to start a glider club which eventually became White Sands Soaring Association. The most complicated glider instrument: pellet variometer. Radios? You're kidding, right? Navigation? IFR (I Follow Roads) backed up with IFRR. (I Follow Rail Roads)



On Sunday, March 17, 2013 9:20:37 AM UTC-6, Dan Marotta wrote:
We had some machines that had to be booted from punched tape. We did it so

often that we used mylar tape! We also had a hand-held, battery powered,

winder up thingie to wind it back up and then wrap a rubber band around it.

Ah... The days of core memory...



I wonder how that punched mylar tape would work as a combined control

seal/turbulator...





"Martin Gregorie" wrote in message

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On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:17:26 -0700, chip.bearden wrote:



Cool. One card per turnpoint. Manually sorted/indexed for your easy

access. "Aww crap, can't find turnpoint #2 - it must've slipped behind

my back".



Using punched paper tape would solve that problem, Erik. Same

technology, different medium.



There's a problem: there's no stairwell in most gliders. I used to work

with paper tape and the stair-well is essential. If you get a large roll

tangled, e.g. drop it and have the centre fall out, the quick fix is to

hold one end, dump the rest down the stair well and wind it up again.

OTOH I can imagine loose tape in a cockpit trussing the pilot like a

turkey ready for Thanksgiving.





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martin@ | Martin Gregorie

gregorie. | Essex, UK

org |

On 3/17/2013 6:41 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:17:26 -0700, chip.bearden wrote:

Cool. One card per turnpoint. Manually sorted/indexed for your easy
access. "Aww crap, can't find turnpoint #2 - it must've slipped behind
my back".

Using punched paper tape would solve that problem, Erik. Same
technology, different medium.

There's a problem: there's no stairwell in most gliders. I used to work
with paper tape and the stair-well is essential. If you get a large roll
tangled, e.g. drop it and have the centre fall out, the quick fix is to
hold one end, dump the rest down the stair well and wind it up again.
OTOH I can imagine loose tape in a cockpit trussing the pilot like a
turkey ready for Thanksgiving.


Thanksgiving?!? Wow. We colonials mostly presume youse guys are as ignorant of
our holiday as we are of Guy Fawkes' Day. :-)

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:09:30 -0600, BobW wrote:

On 3/17/2013 6:41 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:17:26 -0700, chip.bearden wrote:

Cool. One card per turnpoint. Manually sorted/indexed for your
easy access. "Aww crap, can't find turnpoint #2 - it must've slipped
behind my back".

Using punched paper tape would solve that problem, Erik. Same
technology, different medium.

There's a problem: there's no stairwell in most gliders. I used to work
with paper tape and the stair-well is essential. If you get a large
roll tangled, e.g. drop it and have the centre fall out, the quick fix
is to hold one end, dump the rest down the stair well and wind it up
again. OTOH I can imagine loose tape in a cockpit trussing the pilot
like a turkey ready for Thanksgiving.


Thanksgiving?!? Wow. We colonials mostly presume youse guys are as
ignorant of our holiday as we are of Guy Fawkes' Day. :-)

The Thanksgiving Turkey is about the only traditional association between
a bird and a public holiday I can think of that still exists in the
anglophone world and no other bird is so often trussed for cooking.

Over here it used to be the Christmas Goose, but thats fading fast. The
Norfolk turkey farmers are pushing the Xmas Turkey really hard but it
hasn't yet achieved traditional status. That means your traditional
Thanksgiving nosh holds the iconic number one slot.


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martin@ | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
org |

On 3/17/2013 1:48 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:


Over here it used to be the Christmas Goose, but thats fading fast. The
Norfolk turkey farmers are pushing the Xmas Turkey really hard but it
hasn't yet achieved traditional status. That means your traditional
Thanksgiving nosh holds the iconic number one slot.

Maybe not the record for "farthest thread drift", but satellite
communicator to not-yet traditional Xmas dinner probably rates at least
an Honorable Mention!

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to
email me)

Happy (early) first of April, Eric!
Jim

On Sunday, March 17, 2013 5:04:08 PM UTC-7, Eric Greenwell wrote:
Maybe not the record for "farthest thread drift", but satellite
communicator to not-yet traditional Xmas dinner probably rates at least
an Honorable Mention!