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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Python programming
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 19:25:19 -0500
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On 06 Mar 2014 02:51:54 GMT, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der
Horst) declaimed the following:

>In article <roy-A94C1B.22041912022014@news.panix.com>,
>Roy Smith  <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>>In article <ldhcau$d9v$1@reader1.panix.com>,
>> Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2014-02-13, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> >    An S-100 wire-wrap board.
>>>
>>> Yup, been there done that!
>>
>>Never did S-100, but I did do a custom Unibus card (wirewrap).
>>
>>You know you're working with a Real Computer (tm) when the +5V power
>>supply can deliver as much current as an arc welder.
>
>I've a 64 node Parsytec transputer system in the hall way with
>dual 5V 100A power supplies. Does that count?

	I spotted a device on the table of the company calibration office...

	As I recall, it was a 100A capable resistor... 0.10 OHM.

	No idea what it was meant for; big binding posts at one end, and a slab
of sheet steel in a "W" shape (smooth curves, not sharp bends).
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/