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On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:12:00 -0000 (UTC), Nick Hayward
<nhayward8990@protonmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:38:53 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
>
>> On 15/09/2024 10:58, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:13:15 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 15/09/2024 03:49, john larkin wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The best thing about MK is that it's close to Oxford.
>>>>
>>>> I really must disagree. The best thing about MK is Bletchley Park.
>>>> It's more than possible that none of us would be here if it wasn't for
>>>> the activities at Station X in the early 40s.
>>>>
>>>> It's perhaps interesting to surmise that if what went on at Bletchley
>>>> Park hadn't been kept secret until the mid 70s, perhaps the new town
>>>> envisioned in the 60s would have been called "Bletchley" in honour and
>>>> recognition of what it had done to hasten the end of World War II.
>>> 
>>> They've made a museum out of it and it's *very* well worth a visit.
>> 
>> I visited at the end of November 2009, when it had just opened and the
>> huts were still in a pretty rough state. It was a good time to go as it
>> was a very cold day and there were few visitors. I was lucky on twos 
>> counts. Firstly, we were shown round by Jean Valentine (who worked there
>> during the war and had appeared on numerous "Station X" documentaries.
>> She was one of those who entered the various settings onto the Bombe
>> machine, and then phoned the possible decryption code to the hut where
>> Turing worked. It was more-or-less next door, but she had no idea where
>> it was, not even if it was at Bletchley Park!). Secondly, I was able to
>> chat to Tony Sale for a while, as there was nobody else around. He, of
>> course, was the driving force behind rebuilding Colossus. He had spoken
>> with Tommy Flowers, who designed and built the original, and helped Sale
>> with the rebuild as almost all the original documentation had been
>> destroyed on Churchill's orders
>
>Astounding brain power those guys had. What is it about the English that 
>makes them such amazing thinkers? They're not so great when it comes to 
>building things affordably and efficiently, but as conceptualists, they're 
>simply unbeatable.

I have noticed that some countries (the USA and the UK especially)
have lots of quirkly small electronics companies that do difficult and
fun stuff. France and Germany have a few.

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  Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-12 09:45 +0000
    Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-12 10:27 +0000
    Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-12 11:34 +0100
      Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-12 14:43 +0200
        Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-13 04:49 +0000
          Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-13 12:14 +0200
            Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-13 11:57 +0000
              Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-13 21:07 +0200
          Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Chris Jones <lugnut808@spam.yahoo.com> - 2024-09-13 20:55 +1000
            Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-13 11:38 +0000
              Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-13 20:40 +0200
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-14 05:55 +0000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-14 13:17 +0000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2024-09-14 18:46 +0100
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-14 19:20 +0000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:49 -0700
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-15 08:13 +0100
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-15 09:58 +0000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham) - 2024-09-15 11:21 +0100
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-15 11:00 +0000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-15 11:38 +0100
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Nick Hayward <nhayward8990@protonmail.com> - 2024-09-15 17:12 +0000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-15 19:10 +0100
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 12:21 -0700
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 18:03 +1000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 12:11 -0700
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:54 +1000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-14 19:50 +0200
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-15 05:51 +0000
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 11:21 -0700
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-14 21:49 +0200
                Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-15 18:41 -0400
    Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jasen Betts <usenet@revmaps.no-ip.org> - 2024-09-18 05:33 +0000
  Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... john larkin <jl@650pot.com> - 2024-09-13 12:56 -0700
    Re: Electrostatic actuators to move robots legs... Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-14 05:56 +0000

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