Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 10 Mar 2025 05:52:30 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <20250227080310.0000604d@gmail.com> <20250309183216.3f8bca22c1c9fab4a42f4662@127.0.0.1> <5oicndevqZZq2lP6nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 1QdOLfgnXf2gh7b+l/W6ZATD9npXZeSDfE6p5payD2z3hTE/78 Cancel-Lock: sha1:E3c2OJqcMtY7MaxHWdJ6itBIbh4= sha256:A0Uv56iR/cq5rjpzGG/vdW8mY+xHGbydbOL0Xz01Wtw= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230492 comp.os.linux.misc:66189 On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 22:01:17 -0400, c186282 wrote: > There have been a few good films of Wells stuff > also - the early 60s "First Men In The Moon", the Rod Taylor "Time > Machine" and the Gene Barry 'War Of The Worlds' update. Also been BAD > films. > The odd WOTW with Tom Cruise was weird ... the same story, but from a > Joe Anybody's on the street perspective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon The local indie theater uses the rocket in the eye image for their logo. > Home-made spark-gap ... CAN be done. However if you wanna TUNE it > you'd better have a Google-like knowledge of winding inductors and > the formulas for caps made from little scraps of metal and the > relevant resonance equations. Some DO ... even more 50 years ago. I > know what NEEDS to be done - but those formulas/tables, long gone > from the memory bank. Tune? We doan need no steenking tune. https://earlyradiohistory.us/1901true.htm Marconi and DeForest were involved but everyone was using very dirty transmitters and effectively jamming each other. It took a few years before it developed beyond pumping a lot of energy into an antenna and hoping for the best.