Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 12/7/05 9:15 AM, "Adam Bridge" <abridge@gmail.com> typed: > Well actually there are some good PDP-11 emulators that will run RT-11 > just fine and faster than the early versions. > > Tom Swift Jr - oh boy - I ate those puppies up. Amazing how he managed > to use his slide rule to decrypt alien symbols. Never figured that > out. My favorite title "Tom Swift Jr. and his Spectro-marine Selector" > which pulled metals out of seawater I think. > > I also have "Tom Swift Amoung the Diamond Makers" which is from the > original set of boy's novels from, I think, the 30s. The prose of a > very different time. > > Adam SPECTRO MARINE SELECTOR wow you've got a better memory than I do! Those words haven passed through my brain 40 years! Buy them HERE: http://www.series.net/store/swiftjr.html And his Ultrasonic Cycloplane was good! And his Triphibian Atomicar got me all excited! None of these words are in my spell checker by the way. And check THIS out http://www.duntemann.com/tomswift.htm I found the original tom swift Sr. titles to be very humorous in comparison and when first heard them I thought he really invented all this stuff. Kind of low tech. Kind of Monty Python: Tom Swift and his Motor Cycle Tom Swift and his Motor Boat Tom Swift and his Air Glider Tom Swift and his Wizard Camera Tom Swift and his Great Search Light Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone (I kid you not!) Tom Swift and his War Tank (bet he invented it!) Tom Swift and his Flying Boat Tom Swift and his Talking Pictures (????!?) Tom Swift and his Giant Magnet Tom Swift and his Giant Telescope I think I should come up with a few of my own!: Tom Swift and his portable flashlight Tom Swift and his shoes with rubber Soles Tom Swift and his filmless camera Tom Swift and his pinwheel sparkler which he plays with in the closet. Tom Swift and his telescoping slide rule. Tom Swift and his trigonometric rangefinder camera I think I'll call those....SWIFITES No the real SWIFITES are" "I have a split personality," said Tom, being frank. (no not a real one) http://www.without-feathers.com/scraps/read/tom-swifties.php "I only have diamonds, clubs and spades," Tom said heartlessly. "_____," Tom said blankly. "I was the first to climb Mount Everest," Tom said hilariously. "The sum of the squares of the two sides of a triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse." quoted Tom obliquely. "Blast it! I dropped my toothpaste again," Tom said, crestfallen. "I won't let a flat tire get me down," Tom said, without despair. "Macintosh is the best computer," said Tom applaudingly. Tom Swifties Rejected from Boys Life Magazine: ?I?ve had it as a prospector,? Tom deadpanned. ?I dismembered a street urchin last night,? Tom said disjointedly. http://chappie.stanford.edu/archives/2003-2004/garage_sale/tom_swifties_reje cted_from_boys_life_magazine/ Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/