Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Fri, 13 Dec 2024, Rich wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, Rich wrote:
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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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Ah... childhood memories! This was the easiest thing in the world to
produce! Once I managed to stop a subway line with it. I think I was
around 12 or 13, and we were playing with this stuff under a bridge that
had a subway line.
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The subway came, created a draft that sucked all the smoke into the
tunnel, and they thought there was a fire and stopped the subway. 10
minutes later the police arrived, discovered us (we didn't run) and said
"boys will be boys" and let us go.
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I thought the police actually thought it was funny and were reminded of
their own childhood (although of course they didn't show any of this).
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Ahh, those were better, more innocent times!

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Yes indeed.  Today some kids doing the identical activity would pull in
the local police, the FBI, the TSA, and likely several other
three-letter-agencies and the kids would be put on several terrorist in
the making watchlists and be haunted by that label for the rest of
their lives.

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Sadly I believe you are correct. =( And that attitude is killing freedom
and society.

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Also forgot: And their respective parents would be charged with child
abuse, child endangerment, and whatever else the local DA wanted to
throw in, for allowing "Jonny" to roam free and play with such
"dangerous materials".

Ahh... so they can take the children away and bring them up as perfects servants of the state. Make sense. =(