Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 22:01:17 -0400, c186282 wrote:

There have been a few good films of Wells stuff
   also - the early 60s "First Men In The Moon", the Rod Taylor "Time
   Machine" and the Gene Barry 'War Of The Worlds' update. Also been BAD
   films.
   The odd WOTW with Tom Cruise was weird ... the same story, but from a
   Joe Anybody's on the street perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

The local indie theater uses the rocket in the eye image for their logo.

   Home-made spark-gap ... CAN be done. However if you wanna TUNE it
   you'd better have a Google-like knowledge of winding inductors and
   the formulas for caps made from little scraps of metal and the
   relevant resonance equations. Some DO ... even more 50 years ago. I
   know what NEEDS to be done - but those formulas/tables, long gone
   from the memory bank.

Tune? We doan need no steenking tune.

https://earlyradiohistory.us/1901true.htm

Marconi and DeForest were involved but everyone was using very dirty
transmitters and effectively jamming each other. It took a few years
before it developed beyond pumping a lot of energy into an antenna and
hoping for the best.