Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:29:34 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <8Gq5P.102877$7FA3.45532@fx13.iad> <3b7aeb7e-5ac3-09be-eacd-23d5e0dfd950@example.net> <61890a5e-ba4b-b266-f822-3f10294e63a1@example.net> <3834b159-d262-5cb7-2ffb-5edc9e1c2042@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2545999"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62266 On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, Rich wrote: > D wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:20:37 +0100, D wrote: >>> >>>> What I did not test was to buy some alcohol to purify the gun powder. I >>>> also had bad quality coal as well, so that's something I would change >>>> til next time. >>> >>> Sourcing the potassium nitrate and sulfur was no problem in the '50s but >>> trying to grind down charcoal was a miserable task. During one of the >>> times in grade school chemistry class when I wasn't daydreaming I learned >>> the formula for sucrose was C12H22O11. Hmmm, that looks like a lot of >>> carbon and stuff that should turn into water vapor. Rocket candy was born! >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_candy >>> >>> It was many years later I found out about it. It wasn't much of an >>> explosive but back then dry gas came in about a 12 ounce can with a >>> conical top that necked down to a screw cap. Filling one of those and >>> lighting it lead to a very satisfactory fountain of flame. I never thought >>> to try launching a rocket with it. >> >> Ah... childhood memories! This was the easiest thing in the world to >> produce! Once I managed to stop a subway line with it. I think I was >> around 12 or 13, and we were playing with this stuff under a bridge that >> had a subway line. >> >> The subway came, created a draft that sucked all the smoke into the >> tunnel, and they thought there was a fire and stopped the subway. 10 >> minutes later the police arrived, discovered us (we didn't run) and said >> "boys will be boys" and let us go. >> >> I thought the police actually thought it was funny and were reminded of >> their own childhood (although of course they didn't show any of this). >> >> Ahh, those were better, more innocent times! > > Yes indeed. Today some kids doing the identical activity would pull in > the local police, the FBI, the TSA, and likely several other > three-letter-agencies and the kids would be put on several terrorist in > the making watchlists and be haunted by that label for the rest of > their lives. Sadly I believe you are correct. =( And that attitude is killing freedom and society.