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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19114 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Virgin flight arrives 48 minutes early. Flight reaches 801 mph as a furious jet stream packs record-breaking speeds That's ground speed not air speed so it didn't break the sound barrier. |
moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Still have my BBC B.Ah the age of the home computer:) During the early 1980s, the BBC started what became known as the BBC Computer Literacy Project. And so did Sweden with the project ABC 80, also known as Advanced BASIC Computer 80, in 1978. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_80 Both quite expensive though so I bought a Sinclair ZX81 instead:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jr7Q1yJOUM |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29910 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Virgin flight arrives 48 minutes early. I once saw a plane flying backwards. It's max air speed was less than the wind speed. He was coming in to land..... tail first. Never heard how that worked out. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I wrote LOGO poems on a TI99/4A. Never used its BASIC.My son had a ROM cartridge which simulated a Moon landing with limited fuel supply like Apollo 11. Tullio |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29910 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
My son had a ROM cartridge which simulated a Moon landing with limited fuel supply like Apollo 11. I still have that cartridge and TI Invaders. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I played Adventure on a UNIX computer while translating "The soul of a new machine"by Tracy Kidder which spoke also of it. But Mondadori published it with a wrong title. The Data General new computer was not a PC but a minicomputer, a species now extinct. Tullio |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65794 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
It took a few days, but in Atari Basic I typed in Attack on the Death Star from Compute Magazine on My modded Atari 400 computer which had 48K memory and a real aftermarket full stroke keyboard called the "B-key 400" installed in it. Some of that typing was pretty tortured since some characters had to have 2 keys pressed at once. But for the price of a magazine I had a working game back in the 1980's, one mistake and the game would not work, thankfully Atari Basic gave the line location of any errors and didn't leave one to search thru the entire text. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19114 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Don't see a basketball thread, so putting it here. Zion Williamson injured as Nike shoe falls apart after 33 seconds |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20388 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Back in my youth. I had a TS ZX81, TS 1000 and a TS 2068. The Timex Sinclair 2068 had a pair of 5 1/4†floppy disk drives. |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
NIKE......"Just Blew It"........ edit.....I wasted many hours 35 years ago playing 'Loderunner' on a Commodore 64. Great little computer, it had a primitive office program called 'Magic Desk' that was very useful until MS Office hoovered everything up. The best game I found on the system was F15 Strike Eagle, which I also played on my early PCs. "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30702 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
WARNING PARENTS: Take the Nike shoes away from your children immediately. Don't let this happen to them. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13755 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Truckie's drone photography hobby- the Eyre highway from the air. Australia's longest section of straight road, the 90 mile straight (144km). Grant Darwin NT |
Carlos Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 29910 Credit: 57,275,487 RAC: 157 |
Not the longest, that goes to North Dakota D-46 W Located in the state of North Dakota, the ND-46 W is 120 miles (193km) stretch of straightness near Fargo. This asphalted road links Oxbow (in Cass County) and Streeter (Stutsman County). It’s a straight road with a few kinks breaking up slightly the straight parts for 1 h 56 min. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13755 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
with a few kinks breaking up slightly the straight parts By definition, a straight stretch of road is straight- no deviations. So when it comes to a straight stretch of road it's not longer than the 90 mile straight- there are no kinks in it. Just 90 miles of straight road. Grant Darwin NT |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30702 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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moomin Send message Joined: 21 Oct 17 Posts: 6204 Credit: 38,420 RAC: 0 |
Speaking of movie actors. Douglas that played the parrot Rosalinda in the 1970 Pippi Longstocking movie "Pippi in the South Seas" has died at the age of 51. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-47358702 |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30702 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Yes... These hoaxes are causing real damage to hate crime victims credibility. Like fake rape crime reports. Never be zero but very close. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19114 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
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Byron Leigh Hatch @ team Carl Sagan Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 4548 Credit: 35,667,570 RAC: 4 |
Friday, March 8 |
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