Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Apple, Android, and watches...Oh my!

[Doug & Terri (dnt]

“fourier” - - - now THAT’s a word I haven’t heard in long time.

 

I’m a junk collector of cool stuff.  I have a CDC/Cray (??) [that’s what the guy told me] and a Univac memory board.  4.25 inches square with a mesh of little bitty tiny beads with tiny tiny wires running thru them.

 

I grew up with an IBM 409 card reader.  Know where the size of the IBM card comes from? [like it matters now]  Patterned after the bank note counting machines – and the size of US folding money – back in the 1890’s.

 

DOUG

PS – for the Ferrari List - - - I also have various pistons from Ferari race cars.  From something tiny to a 250LM to an F1 piston and rod.  Of course everyone needs a McLaren 500ci Chevy (doesn’t exist) piston.  Got that from Ed Pink.

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+dnt=dock.net [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of Rick Lindsay
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 2:43 PM
To: DOUG
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Apple, Android, and watches...Oh my!

 

Mine was in '79 on a Z80 running CPM. Booted from a one sided 8" floppy! On that system I wrote code to digitize and process high altitude aerial photography. After digitizing the images, they were transformed into the F-K domain using the full Fourier transforms, forward and inverse. I don't think I ever worked harder, learned more, or enjoyed work more in my tender 64 years.

 

-rick

 

 

Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5

-------- Original message --------
From: Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com>
Date: 03/10/2015 4:35 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Apple, Android, and watches...Oh my!

My 1st programming ( paid ) job was in 1973 on a Wang 720C. It was the best work I have ever done. 1982 bytes not K, meg, Gig, just BYTES. Full payroll, job cost accounting, was the most rewarding.

 

Stephen

 

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com> wrote:

I must admit, the only thing prettier than Apple products is the boxes that they come in!

 

I recently bought a notebook for Nancy; a Dell something-or-other. It came with Windows 8. What a cock-up abortion of an operating system!!! Gawd its terrible! It really typifies the plight of the PC:

 

Hobbiest toy > office machine > scientific calculator > gaming platform > entertainment device

 

I must admit, I'm a Linux guy. Was using it professionally as early as 1994! Granted, the latest implementations are candied-up quite a bit, but command line is still strong. I can't even find a command prompt on Nancy's W8 machine, not that I really want to...

 

Of course, this is the direction of progress. Games and entertainment built the personal computer market, just like porn built the internet; as much as we don't want to believe it. My next quest is to see if Windows 7 is compatible with Nancy's new Dell. If so, the question is whether to go back or wait for MS to replace this Vista-like release with something workable.

 

Wait! This is the Ferrari list, not the computer list. Sorry. Did I tell you that my cat died?

 

 

-rick

Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5

-------- Original message --------
From: Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com>
Date: 03/10/2015 9:57 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Apple, Android, and watches...Oh my!

I guess I will admit that I am getting an Apple Watch ( Black Stainless Steel 42mm Milanese band).

I don't have an IV Apple drip, I just like the watch.

I don't have any Mac's (build my own PC's) I prefer Woz's approach rather than Job's.

I will admit to being a past president of an Apple users group, back in the day when you could buy a blank card from Apple.

 

Stephen

 

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Erik wrote...

 

> What?  No comments?  Guess the list is just waiting for a good cat and gun...

 

I'm just not a Apple person. Never have been. Just not my religion. That said, and with the manufacturer ignored, a wrist worn computer is a pretty cool idea. No more rectangle imprints on women's butts, no more '80s-pocket-calculater-like holsters hanging from guys' belts. Not bad. Of course, it won't help the millenials who have to carry a movie screen around with them 24/7...but nothing says they can't have both!

 

Sorry, Ferrari content: My cat died a couple of years ago, and I have an IR thermometer and a timing light, both of which are gun-shaped. 

 

-rick

 Samsung Galaxy S® 5, but I'm not an Android guy either.

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