[Leica] [LRflex] Digital Leica "M"

[csemetko at earthlink.net (Craig Semetko)]

Wow. I think the only sentence in this thread I actually understood 
was, "It's time for Louisa's bath!"


On Dec 7, 2005, at 7:15 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

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> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 21:08:09 -0600
> From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M"
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
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> The PDP 8 was the beginning of wind tunnel plant automation for our
> facilities.  It could take two pressure inputs and solve the equations 
> to
> present Mach number on a small TV monitor on the operator's console.  
> It was
> followed by the later PDP models and finally a VAX, with control 
> algorithms
> to replace the operator.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 22:09:48 -0500
> From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: [LRflex] Digital Leica "M"
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
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> Ah, the joys of minimization.  Back when I was taking a course in
> celestial navigation I wrote a sight reduction program for my HP-11C
> that took me literally a month to make fit its non-expandable memory.
>
> It was, of course, made instantly obsolete when the first dedicated
> navigational calculators appeared about a month later.
>
> But, I made it fit, yes I did!  :-)
>
>
>> I have an HP-67 as well with a selection of the little mag-cards for
>> holding programs.
>>
>> It nearly cost me my marriage. I'd left the Navy and was getting at EE
>> at UC Davis and was sitting at home writing a program to solve some
>> function or other and, as was the geekiness of the time, trying to get
>> it down to the bare minimum of instructions (memory was very limited).
>> So I was working and working in my chair, manual open, debugging and
>> stepping through the program and finally my wife said "Oh can't you
>> get that finished? It's time for Louisa's bath!" "Oh," I said, "It
>> works just fine, I'm trying to  make it as compact as possible." The
>> nuclear detonation could be heard all over the block and I took Louisa
>> to her bath, story and bed.
>>
>> I'm lucky I had a calculator when I returned to my chair! And she
>> NEVER understood that desire to make programs small and optimum. Of
>> course it's totally wasted in these days. Ah for the joys of PDP-11
>> assembler!
>>
>
> (snip)
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Dick
> Boston MA