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Danger - 20000 Ohms?

Posted by $ jbrenner 6 years, 9 months ago to Humor
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A good friend and former business partner of mine and I sold our former biofuels company (our form of shrugging) right after reading Atlas Shrugged in 2008. His shrug job is ownership of a used computer and electronics shop. Imagine Sanford & Son for electronics.

On the outside of the building is the linked sign.

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    Posted by Solver 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They had a PDP-8 in my high school. I learned to program BASIC using a teletype that was hooked up to it. The TI-99/8 was never made for production. The prototypes are are even rarer than an Apple 1. Still have one.
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    Posted by $ jbrenner 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Disproven in The Best of Both Worlds episode of Star Trek - The Next Generation by a former first officer who employed a "brilliantly unorthodox" strategy. That episode illustrated the power of the mind!
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    Posted by CTYankee 6 years, 9 months ago
    According to legend: "It's not the volts that kill ya, it's the amps."
    So the equivalent bromide might read: "It's not the impedance it's the conductance."

    Sorry, it was funnier in my head.
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    Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sounds like you and I grew up in the same era. Very familiar with those machines. I cut my teeth as a high school student learning machine language programming on a DEC PDP-8e in the mid-1970s.
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    Posted by $ jbrenner 6 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I haven't seen those computers there. They have plenty of x86's. Contact John Sessa at jsessa@bojo83.com, and mention Dr. Brenner.
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    Posted by Solver 6 years, 9 months ago
    Used computers? Are they rarities like an Altair 8800, a SOL-20 or even a TI-99/8?
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