[NSRCA-discussion] 4.8 volt Vs 6.0 volt

[Ron Van Putte]

On Mar 11, 2006, at 10:56 AM, J.Oddino wrote:

> I don't see how anyone can call me old.  I've been 29 for as long  
> as I can
> remember.  I'm 29 to the 1.274 power now and since I got my new  
> knees I
> really feel young.  I went to the gym this week (four weeks after  
> surgery)
> and did 1.6 miles in half an hour on the treadmill and made 65 free  
> throws
> in a row.  Wait til I get my hook shot back.  None of these young  
> guys have
> hook shots so they don't know what to do when they get the ball  
> under the
> hoop.  The usual result is a blocked shot.

Well, I'm about to celebrate the 42nd anniversary of my 29th  
birthday, have all my original equipment, except for bionic lenses,  
and I can walk all the way around the block if the wind isn't blowing  
too strong.  I don't do basketball, but, then again, I never did.

> I hate to admit this, but I remember when servos didn't have  
> numbers.  In
> fact I remember when model airplane servos weren't really servos.   
> They were
> actuators with limit switches and neutralizing switches and driven  
> by relays
> in the receiver.  Then Bonner/Elliott put transistors in the  
> "servo" to  get
> rid of the relays in the receiver.  I'm not sure who gets the  
> credit for
> having the first commercially available proportional servos but I  
> remember
> giving up building my own and buying some Space Control servos in  
> 1961.
> What is most interesting is the fact modern servos work basically  
> the same
> as the so called "digital servos" introduced by Mathes and Spreng  
> in about
> 1963 in their Digicon system.  I think this was before Bob Richards  
> was
> born.

I can remember Lorenz, deBolt, Dunham, Bonner, Kraft and all the  
other famous oldies from reading about them in the magazines.  Geez,  
I can even remember World War II, rationing and blackouts!  Yeah,  
we're getting old.

Ron Van Putte


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Budd" <jerry at buddengineering.com>
> To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] 4.8 volt Vs 6.0 volt
>
>
>>> OK.  That settles it.  Jim Oddino is just as old as me and I expect
>>> he will be offended that you call people our age old.  He lives out
>>> there on the left coast and he will probably find you, wherever you
>>> hide, and punish you.  Right Jim?
>>
>> Yeah, but he's [Bionic] and likely to last forever.  Besides, he
>> shoots free throws better than I do.
>>
>>>> Sheesh!  Single digit servo numbers?  How <retro>.
>>>
>>> Single digit servo numbers?  12 is a single digit?  What public
>>> school did you graduate from, sonny?
>>
>> Umm, umm (too embarassed to think of a comeback...!).
>>
>>>> Next you're going to tell us how CA bottles used to be sealed with
>>>>  wax!
>>>
>>> CA?  What's that?  The only things I can remember that were sealed
>>> with wax were the receiver IF transformers and the little bottles of
>>> sweet water you got from the grocery store.
>>
>> Don't you use wax to hold your false teeth in place?  ;-)
>>
>> Jerry
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