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RE: Over brandy and cigars - 7/11/2006 8:09:36 PM   
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This guy seems to think that "CAPS LOCK" is an effective motivator.


Caps Lock? On a manual typewriter?? You funny guy!
*Gives "Cap" a noogie*

His Italics Lock key was probably just broken.

By the way, if I recall correctly, Lend Lease was eventually extended to all those who were at war with the Axis. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/l1/lendleas.asp

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RE: Over brandy and cigars - 7/11/2006 8:14:55 PM   
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Caps Lock? On a manual typewriter?? You funny guy!
*Gives "Cap" a noogie*

His Italics Lock key was probably just broken.



there is no truth to the rumor that the document was "prepared' by the same chap who prepared the Bush national Guard document aired by CBS News

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RE: Over brandy and cigars - 7/11/2006 8:23:07 PM   
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This guy seems to think that "CAPS LOCK" is an effective motivator.


Caps Lock? On a manual typewriter?? You funny guy!
*Gives "Cap" a noogie*



There is a CAP LOCK on manual typewriter (although they called it SHIFT-LOCK back in the ancient times...)

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On paper - 7/11/2006 8:29:05 PM   
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RE: Over brandy and cigars - 7/11/2006 8:30:10 PM   
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This guy seems to think that "CAPS LOCK" is an effective motivator.


Caps Lock? On a manual typewriter?? You funny guy!
*Gives "Cap" a noogie*



There is a CAP LOCK on manual typewriter (although they called it SHIFT-LOCK back in the ancient times...)



HEY! THAT'S RIGHT! <turns off "shift-lock">

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RE: Over brandy and cigars - 7/11/2006 8:31:43 PM   
mlees


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Status: offline 		I remember that there was a key, that when pressed, "locked" the paper roller into a higher postion (some typewriters had such stiff keys that you needed fingers of steel to depress them hard enough), which caused the capital letter version of the dpressed keys to hit the paper/ribbon, instead of the regular lower case letter. (The old versions of the typewriter had "arms", one for each key on the keyboard, that could jam together if you typed too fast.)

I just didn't remember what the identifying word on the shift locking key was... now I do.

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Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/11/2006 9:08:51 PM   
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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/11/2006 9:33:17 PM   
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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/11/2006 9:43:08 PM   
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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/11/2006 10:20:24 PM   
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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 4:33:59 PM   
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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 4:46:48 PM   
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Hey don't knock it I was still using Teletype(with tickertape) machines for communications when I was In the UK Civil Defence Organisation in the Early 80's.Some of us can even remember the the years BM(Before Microsoft)



Hey, i bought my first microcomputer in 1978, well before Mr. Gates had established his monopoly... My first real printer was something like the "keyboard" shown above, except that it was interfaced in strange manner so that the whole thing took up a large desk!! Weighed about 300 pounds (no joke!!)

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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 4:53:55 PM   
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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 4:58:32 PM   
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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 5:06:18 PM   
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I also aqquired my 1st home computer in '78 (a VIC 20...no don't laugh) I'm conducting this conversation on my 10th


Your 10th VIC 20??

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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 5:12:46 PM   
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ah memories....my first was an Atari 400 with a whopping 16K of RAM




Ha! We used to DREAM of 16K! The first computer I had access to was a 2nd hand Raytheon industrial machine. It actually had a core memory..magnetic donuts about 5-6 mm in diameter with a grid of conductors running at right angles that would change the state of the elements

Of course, there was no input-interface device at the start..we had to enter code with push button binary switches on the front of the machine...the routine was written in machine language...02E0 (hex) was "Clear Accumulator" for eg.

Later one of local geniuses built a paper tape reader himself and we were able to enter a BASIC compiler from the late Pleistocene.

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More Brandy and Cigars - 7/12/2006 5:16:29 PM   
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*****Minutes from a Defense Ministry meeting on a request for more troops for Hong Kong*****



W.C. “This is all wrong. If Japan goes to war there is not the slightest chance of holding Hong Kong or relieving it. It is most unwise to increase the loss we shall suffer there. Instead of increasing the garrison it ought to be reduced. Japan will think twice before declaring war on the British Empire, and whether there are two or six battalions at Hong Kong will make no difference. I wish we had fewer troops there, but to move any would be noticeable and dangerous.”

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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 5:20:20 PM   
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ah memories....my first was an Atari 400 with a whopping 16K of RAM




Ha! We used to DREAM of 16K! The first computer I had access to was a 2nd hand Raytheon industrial machine. It actually had a core memory..magnetic donuts about 5-6 mm in diameter with a grid of conductors running at right angles that would change the state of the elements

Of course, there was no input-interface device at the start..we had to enter code with push button binary switches on the front of the machine...the routine was written in machine language...02E0 (hex) was "Clear Accumulator" for eg.

Later one of local geniuses built a paper tape reader himself and we were able to enter a BASIC compiler from the late Pleistocene.



Are you channeling your people from 1945??

EDIT: Even in 1968 we had paper-tape readers in high school, iirc!


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Inexplicably - 7/12/2006 5:40:10 PM   
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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 5:45:22 PM   
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Are you channeling your people from 1945??

EDIT: Even in 1968 we had paper-tape readers in high school, iirc!



OK..you outed me...I am, in fact....Shirley MacLaine. I would have mentioned it earlier...but honestly..I am somewhat ashamed of my love of wargames.





ps...It was a donated machine..old technology..it came with what it came with

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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 8:53:39 PM   
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...I am, in fact....Shirley MacLaine.


I knew it all along. That sod just looked too good.

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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore - 7/12/2006 9:24:36 PM   
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Unfortunate choice of phrase that wasn't it. No this is my 7th PC(the other 2 were a C64 and an Atari 520ST)

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Wake - 7/13/2006 1:13:04 AM   
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RE: Wake - 7/13/2006 11:03:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Over and above the civilian contract employees, the military population of Wake (almost 20 percent of whom were without arms or equipment) total 38 officer and 485 enlisted as follows:


Section, Officers, Enlisted
1st Defense Battalion detachment, 15, 373
VMF-211 and attachments, 12, 49
U.S. Naval Air Station, 10, 58
(without arms)
Army Air Corps, 1, 4
(without arms)
USS Triton, 1,
(without arms)


Source http://users.ev1.net/~gpmoran/WakeDefense1.htm

You can still see some of the Gun platforms and the Hard standing of the Pan-Am seaplane facility on Wake if you Google Earth it

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RE: Wake - 7/13/2006 5:18:33 PM   
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Over and above the civilian contract employees, the military population of Wake (almost 20 percent of whom were without arms or equipment) total 38 officer and 485 enlisted as follows:


Section, Officers, Enlisted
1st Defense Battalion detachment, 15, 373
VMF-211 and attachments, 12, 49
U.S. Naval Air Station, 10, 58
(without arms)
Army Air Corps, 1, 4
(without arms)
USS Triton, 1,
(without arms)


Source http://users.ev1.net/~gpmoran/WakeDefense1.htm

You can still see some of the Gun platforms and the Hard standing of the Pan-Am seaplane facility on Wake if you Google Earth it


Right..so somewhere between late November and early December 2 sailors and 1 AAF personel found themselves on Wake. The sailor from USS Triton seems to have been seriously lost (perhaps he had a medical problem and was put ashore?)

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Fly the Pan Am China Clipper - 7/13/2006 5:30:57 PM   
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http://www.west.net/~ke6jqp/clipper/clipper.htm

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RE: Fly the Pan Am China Clipper - 7/13/2006 8:18:24 PM   
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http://www.pacificwrecks.com

It has loads of photos of sunken Nipponese Ships just to annoy your opponent with

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Its on! - 7/16/2006 5:58:45 PM   
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RE: Fly the Pan Am China Clipper - 7/16/2006 5:59:50 PM   
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By the way Cap Are you aware of this site

http://www.pacificwrecks.com

It has loads of photos of sunken Nipponese Ships just to annoy your opponent with


Yes..I've seen that before...but first we have to sink something. So far, it is the other way around.


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RE: Fly the Pan Am China Clipper - 7/16/2006 6:23:10 PM   
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Recruiting for the War EffortOK this didn't appear until 1942 but I thought it looked nice

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