Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 9 Mar 2025 07:07:13 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 00:20:19 -0500, c186282 wrote:
 

   There's a huge tome called the "ARRL Radio Amateur's Handbook"
   (sometimes several small tomes) that cover just EVERYTHING that is or
   ever was in comm tech - from iron-filing 'detectors' and mechanical
   sine-wave generators on up. Had one, lost it somewhere, very sad.
   Vast practical knowledge between those covers.

 
I think mine is from '92. You need to start a little simpler though. How
about a spark gap generator sending Morse code with a receiver built from

IRC this was one of the technologies created from scratch by Jules
Vernes's castaways on The Mysterious Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island

a lead pencil and a Gillette Blue Blade?
 
Early tech is fun.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Rhinebeck_Aerodrome
 
The last time I was there was in the '80s. A guy had built a Bleriot;
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl%C3%A9riot_XI
 
It uses wing warping rather than ailerons. I asked him how he learned to
fly it and he said you keep taxing a little faster and getting a few feet
higher off the ground until you decide to go for it.
 

--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.