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| From | Richard Smith <null@void.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.crafts.metalworking |
| Subject | Re: off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator? |
| Date | 2026-08-03 21:13 +0100 |
| Organization | BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) |
| Message-ID | <m1bjbjdktt.fsf@void.com> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <114ipdu$2vnba$1@dont-email.me> <114ius4$31knp$1@dont-email.me> <114jb72$3jgba$1@dont-email.me> <114jmk6$38nvl$1@dont-email.me> <114ld8t$3kfuv$1@dont-email.me> |
Bob La Londe <none@none.com99> writes:
>>...
>
> The very last actual computer program I ever wrote was a Quick Basic
> (4.5) executable running under PCDOS 7.0. Due to a partial Y2K bug
> and dead cmos battery I called it in my autoexec to bring up a menu to
> set time and date upon boot up. I used that computer until the end of
> 2016 for remote programming some older lines of alarm panels. In 2017
> I gave it to the company that purchased my alarm accounts.
Digression, but - I used Quick Basic for my first attempts at
programming back in 1996 - so 30 years ago.
I could have used the "built-in" BASIC within "MSWindows" then for what
I was doing, but well - whatever.
I got a first result showing my algorithm did work as a computational
solution.
I realised things got really serious if you were to make the solution
3-Dimensional - one "serious" being that a 3-Dimensional takes the cube
of the amount of memory for my first 1-Dimensional solution (there were
almost no 3-Dimensional solutions around then 30 years ago (?)).
I was pitched into supercomputing at that juncture.
My world became "unix" ("Linux"), programmed in "C".
Within a very few months the academics in the Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science where talking with some amazement at each other as
they absorbed what I had discovered or deduced myself - which they
considered what only an expert could comprehend.
Another "conversation" was a young lady who was a post-doctoral
researcher, who paused for a long time after looking through my code -
then picked-up on the "pointers" I had used - per possibilities I had
read-of in the couple of books I had on programming in "C" (including
Kernighan and Ritchie's "the" book). Where it turns out I had done about
the same as a trainee pilot who had learned about the necessity of
flying low, and the necessity of flying fast, and had just returned from
a first solo training flight in less than half the time it was supposed to take,
with a thin haze of smoke coming off the aircraft and leaves and twigs
jammed in bits of the aeroplane, where they were deducing that the pupil
on an early solo flight had just flown at Mach 2 at treetop height (which
would if so leave them handling "PR" issues like windows broken by the
supersonic boom at just over head height, cows needing psychotherapy,
etc.).
Happy days... :-)
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off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator? Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-07-30 13:11 +0100
Re: off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator? Carl <carl.ijamesXX@YYverizon.net> - 2026-07-30 10:25 -0400
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Re: off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator? "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-07-30 15:22 -0400
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Re: off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator? "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-08-05 09:32 -0400
Re: off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator? "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-08-05 10:06 -0400
Re: off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator? "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com> - 2026-08-05 21:33 -0400
Re: off-grid - battery & winter 12V-generator? Richard Smith <null@void.com> - 2026-08-06 05:34 +0100
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