Referring to your tag line, My great uncle is the man that took the writer
for that Popular Mechanic tough the Univac computer... which as I recall was
only one square city block large, my father had just started working there.
In 8th grade the first portable desktop calculator came out, it took the
whole desk. Used 8 D cell batteries.
They had just started teaching us binary in School the year before.
I recall the Ti99 my Dad bought for my daughter when she was 4, it was
closer to the truth that he wanted to play with it, as I recall, it had 8 MB
memory and here we are sucking up bandwidth...
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jan Steinman
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 9:08 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: astropotography
> From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> A simple barn-door tracker costs about
> five bucks to make and an hour of work. I've been thinking about
> making the more advanced version and even throwing an electric motor
> drive on it. I want to be prepared for the next major round of
> auroras.
Just curious, but why would you need a tracker for auroras? Aren't
they geostationary?
:::: Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum
tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000
vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons. -- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Item/99AP35>
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