[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

[Lightfoot]

They missed one of the most interesting : Commodore PET

 

Jay Marshall 

From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Chale
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 1:47 PM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up

 

and this one has the hard disk that you have been waiting for 10 MB for
$3398  That's more than an Oxai :)
http://www.rockingfundas.com/2010/08/30-old-pc-ads.html

That would make the 1 TB drive I just bought worth 339.8 million dollars at
that rate.

On 12/4/2010 1:04 PM, Ed Alt wrote: 

As long as we're taking a trip down RC memory lane, this may be of interest:

 

http://www.rchalloffame.org/

 

Ed

 

 

-----Original Message----- 

From: ehaury 

Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 12:49 PM 

To: General pattern discussion 

Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up 

 

"Escapement"  comes from the mechanical clock mechanism and is a device that


allows energy to "escape" from a spring in a regulated incremental manner. 

Our escapements did the same thing - applying the energy escape from the 

wound rubber band to a lever that moved the control surface.

 

Earl

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Ron Van Putte"  <mailto:vanputte at cox.net> <vanputte at cox.net>

To: "General pattern discussion"  <mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
<nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>

Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 10:28 AM

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> Sorry, the origin of the term escapement was before my time.  Geez!   I 

> haven't been able to say anything like that for a while.

> 

> Ron VP

> 

> On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:21 AM, rcmaster199 at aol.com wrote:

> 

>> Ha, ha, ha...very funny Ron.

>> 

>> Are you sure you didn't stick the big key in the back of the TX to  wind 

>> that spring up??

>> 

>> Hey, BTW, where did the term "escapement" come from?

>> 

>> 

>> -----Original Message-----

>> From: Ron Van Putte  <mailto:vanputte at cox.net> <vanputte at cox.net>

>> To: General pattern discussion  <mailto:nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
<nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>

>> Sent: Sat, Dec 4, 2010 11:16 am

>> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] website back up

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> 

>> Hey! We didn't have to "wind up the radio". We had to wind up the

>> escapement rubber band. Big difference!

>> 

>> Ron VP

>> 

>> On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Bob Richards wrote:

>> 

>> > Showing my age? Yeah, I wrote Fortran programs in school - on punch

>> > cards. My first personal computer was a TRS80 MIII that I paid

>> > $1000 for, 16k memory and cassette tape program storage. I worked

>> > on point-of-sale systems ("POS" - LOL) that had 32k core memory. I

>> > still have a cash register board somewhere with core memory on it.

>> >

>> > Well, at least I never flew a plane with a radio that required

>> > winding up the radio. :-)

>> >

>> > Bob R.

>> >

>> > --- On Sat, 12/4/10, Bob Kane  <mailto:getterflash at yahoo.com>
<getterflash at yahoo.com> wrote:

>> >

>> > You are showing your age. You could see the "bits".

>> >

>> > Bob Kane

>> > getterflash at yahoo.com

>> >

>> > --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Bob Richards  <mailto:bob at toprudder.com>
<bob at toprudder.com> wrote:

>> >

>> > Core memory, I bet!

>> >

>> >

>> >

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