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[Myriam Schweingruber]

Could we stay on topic, please?


Regards, Myriam


On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 02:53, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Monday 01 February 2010, Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>On Monday 01 February 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> It probably does, but its depth of undo may also be limited.  I can
>>>  usually  fix my typu's without needing that, so it use isn't second
>>>  nature.  And then of course someone here, reading this is bound to quote
>>>  that old saw about old dogs & new tricks.  Shrug.  I've been using vi,
>>> or a clone of it, for at least 30 years.
>>
>>I know just enough vi to know how to use it when I have to.   But ditch it
>> at the first opportunity....
>>
>>I'm 71 but have been working with computers all my 48 years of working
>> life.
>>
> Your computer history goes back farther than mine then.
>
> I cut my first code on an 8 bitter, the RCA 1802, in 78-79 while the ACE at a
> northern Kalifornia tv station.  I guess it must have stood the test of time
> because it was still in use when I was a dozen years down the road as the CE
> of a WV CBS affiliate (WDTV) when I last checked.  I started out fixing the
> neighbors tv's in '49, got tired of consumer electronics customer backlash
> and switched to broadcasting in the early 60's, but did have an unusual
> experience in '60.  I'd hired on as a bench tech at a little startup down on
> Mission Bay that was fine tuning a small tv camera, much smaller than
> anything on the market at the time, 2.5" in diameter, about 13" long, using
> what was then a state of the art 7735A 1" vidicon tube. The idea was to lease
> it to municipalities to be towed through sewers for inspection purposes.  We
> had the 1st one almost working but parts were sticking out of it on long
> leads when about 8:30 Monday morning a bunch of gold and silver from the Navy
> walked in.  They asked how it did in low light, so we cleared a spot to lay
> it in one of the bench drawers, did, and closed the drawer on the rg59 it was
> running on.  A couple seconds for the autotarget to react and we were looking
> at the grain pattern of the plywood back panel of the drawer at nearly full
> brightness on the monitor.  "Sold, when can we have 2 of those, and BTW,
> here's the plans for a pressure case and we will furnish the quartz windows
> for them."  Those two cameras were on the Trieste when it went down in the
> mohole in Feb. '61, and unlike the Trieste, worked flawlessly.  So I can
> claim to have had fingerprints in both of those cameras that went a little
> over 37k feet deep in the Marianas Trench, 49 years ago this month.  You can
> look that up on wikipedia.  Unforch, we had no compact digital image storage
> back then, so the pictures you saw in the encyclopedias were shot with small
> film cameras from the monitor screens.  Not really hi-def, but those are the
> only pictures from the mohole that exist, we've never been back to it.
>
> Yup, by almost pure serendipity I've had other unique experiences.  Its been
> one hell of a ride, but this train seems to be slowing down as the conductor
> keeps eying my ticket. Being diabetic for the last 15 years, my warranty has
> long since expired, but except for 3 times in my life, its been a great ride.
>
> --
> Cheers, Gene
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>
> Your boss climbed the corporate ladder, wrong by wrong.
>
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