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Comment on RUMPLER Designs Largest Plane by Harry

Harry — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:37:31 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out the big Sousaphone bell above the galley.

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Comment on WHY MARRIED MEN VISIT PROSTITUTES by evil

evil — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:10:18 +0000

You are not looking in the right places!

Comment on Expand your knowledge – Subscribe to Byte by Casandro

Casandro — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:15:34 +0000

It’s CP/M of course. The standard OS for such small systems.

Comment on Expand your knowledge – Subscribe to Byte by Toronto

Toronto — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:44:47 +0000

I especially like the wood grain on the 8″ floppy drive. Odds are it was “pecan.”

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by Don

Don — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:43:28 +0000

JMYNT, no that’s a white panel in the chainguard that makes it look like that. The picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.....c_1928.JPG shows it more clearly.

Comment on Expand your knowledge – Subscribe to Byte by GaryM

GaryM — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:21:44 +0000

That definitely couldn’t have been MS-DOS. Look carefully at the screen and you’ll see the dates are in 1979. And the drive is an 8″ floppy — you could almost fit a standard magazine page into it, though it probably wouldn’t work after that.

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by Jari

Jari — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:32:03 +0000

Oh, bummer…. I really should have read the whole thread again, as Firebrand38 pointed out. All that time wasted in research… Erm, let’s call it independent verification, shall we?

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:19:13 +0000

Jari: You really should have read post #4 before sharing your “discovery”.

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by Jari

Jari — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:08:23 +0000

Seems, that MM got the name wrong. That’s actually Ascot-Pullin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.....otorcycles Here’s a short description of it and other Brittish manufacturers: http://www.ianchadwick.com/motorcycles/britbikes/ And a nice colour picture: http://www.vintagebike.co.uk/B.....Pullin.htm Seems that it was quite advanced for it’s time, but the sales didin’t catch on.

Comment on Expand your knowledge – Subscribe to Byte by JMyint

JMyint — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:15:19 +0000

I think that’s CP/M not DOS. Development of MS-DOS didn’t begin begin until 1981 after Microsoft bought the exclusive rights to Q-DOS. My college computer class had all brand new Heath H89’s running CP/M and the picture in the ad reminds me of those Heath computers.

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by JMyint

JMyint — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:58:08 +0000

Did no one notice that when they cropped the picture they cut out the back tyre.

Comment on Expand your knowledge – Subscribe to Byte by Mark

Mark — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:41:40 +0000

“I miss Byte so much! When it was eventually taken over I was promised a replacement subscription to another magazine, but it never appeared.”

I was subscribing at the time also. They finished out my subscription with PC Magazine.

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by Don

Don — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:45:58 +0000

Poseur!

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:45:37 +0000

Repack Rider: Since the kickstand is down he’s just having a cigarette while posing.

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:51:54 +0000

I think that the reason the rider is smoking is to demonstrate that the windshield works so well he can smoke without hot ashes blowing into his ungoggled eyes.

Comment on Twin towers, 110 stories high, world’s tallest by Jerry Harrison

Jerry Harrison — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:09:02 +0000

What information do you have if any on consruction that was done in July of 1964?

Comment on WHY MARRIED MEN VISIT PROSTITUTES by Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:05:44 +0000

“…two-dollar women of the street…”

Two bucks sure doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Comment on Expand your knowledge – Subscribe to Byte by katey

katey — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:46:07 +0000

What is going on in that magazine cover? A champagne coupe, a string of pearls, and some kind of proto-cellphone?

Comment on RUMPLER Designs Largest Plane by William Deering

William Deering — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:10:22 +0000

Eamonn: Thanks for steering me to that very interesting site on early European and Soviet flying wing design history.

Comment on RUMPLER Designs Largest Plane by Jari

Jari — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:54:43 +0000

Tracy B: I was going to compare that thing to Spruce Goose Some real monsters of that time were Dornier Do X and Kalinin K-7, that actually flew (or crashed on first flight, in the case of K-7…), but they have only about half of the wingspan of the Rumpler design. I tried to find some examples of engine power, but that ~600hp is good approximation. Then again, the engine development was quite rapid, and eg. 1933 Hispano-Suiza 12Y developed 760 hp. And a quick quiz: What was the displacement and hp (and other fun facts) of the most? powerful radial engine? Hints, It’s a russian, and it was used in boat.

Comment on Would you Gamble 3 cents to win HAPPINESS? by Ginger

Ginger — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:52:13 +0000

If you can follow this link to “Border Radio” on google books, you’ll find a pretty detailed account of Rose Dawn and her life as an astrologer/psychic on an early radio show. I hate to burst the bubble of like minded knowledge seekers, but it looks as if Firebrand is correct in that The Mayan Order in San Antonio was founded by 2 radio show hucksters. It has been an interesting search and I do hope that Mary Gribble will post again and shed more light on how she came up with the material for the Mayan Monographs.

http://books.google.com/books?.....mp;f=false

Comment on RUMPLER Designs Largest Plane by Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:41:23 +0000

Tracy B: Cessna? You could run rings about it in a Kia!

Comment on RUMPLER Designs Largest Plane by Tracy B

Tracy B — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:39:20 +0000

You call that engine of the that era huge? I believe the max power you could get out of the engines of that time period was only 600 Hp. Only 82 mph in cruise too; today’s basic cessnas would run circles around it. Just wait until the Spruce Goose was built.

Comment on Expand your knowledge – Subscribe to Byte by rick

rick — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:14:22 +0000

All the excited prose about personal computers in the ad, then the monitor showing columns of text and figures . . . makes me want to rush right out and drop about 5 Gs on one of those machines. Ah, the good old days of MS DOS!

Rick

Comment on RUMPLER Designs Largest Plane by Myles

Myles — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:40:09 +0000

That’s going to make a big hole when in crashes. Good thing it never went past a drawing.

Comment on NEW MOTORCYCLE CAN ATTAIN SPEED OF 100 M. P. H! by Don

Don — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:19:14 +0000

Reaching 100 mph on a modern motorcycle is scary enough; I can only imagine what it must have been like on one of these . . . .

Comment on Would you Gamble 3 cents to win HAPPINESS? by Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:10:06 +0000

Harold, unless you’re counting on her psychic powers you might want to provide your address so she can e-mail you.

Comment on Would you Gamble 3 cents to win HAPPINESS? by Harold Wright, Jr

Harold Wright, Jr — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:41:05 +0000

Mary Gribble, how many lessons were there in whole course? You can email me. I would like to chat with you.

Comment on Would you Gamble 3 cents to win HAPPINESS? by Ginger

Ginger — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:05:40 +0000

Mary (Gribble), I was both happy and sad to read your post today. Happy because it sounds rather plausible and perhaps ends my investigation. Sad because it was not the insight I expected when I began searching the web for “The Mayans”. I recently found a pile of The Mayan Monographs (in my deceased father’s belongings) and was very intrigued by the “lessons”. Although, I am a career Army Officer, I am drawn to many things that purport teachings of higher knowledge. I, too, am a Christian and was especially captivated with the fact that the lessons intertwined scripture with esoteric knowledge. Before I came upon your post today, I had researched several items in the lessons and found corraborating information and it “rings true” to me after decades of self-study. This leads me to wonder how you and Verde had access to so many esoteric writings/concepts as a twenty-something without access to the search capabilities of the Internet. By the way, I, too, have connections to San Antonio having graduated from the University of Texas. So, I hope you respond back and provide some further insight on your sources for The Mayan monographs. Ginger