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Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze

From Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze
Date 2026-08-13 19:05 +0200
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On 8/13/26 18:02, john larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:38:30 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/13/26 01:01, Richard wrote:
>>> JM <sunaecoNoChoppedPork@gmail.com> spake the secret code
>>> <ohem7lptsvtfs321p0gc6vucuf121rumfj@4ax.com> thusly:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:53:54 +0200, Jeroen Belleman
>>>> <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Jan has contributed quite a lot of electronics to the group over
>>>>> the years. What did you contribute?
>>>>
>>>> The lad is heading for a stroke getting into such a state over usenet
>>>> posts.
>>>
>>> I guess you're new to usenet.  Policing off-topic posts has been a
>>> thing since the beginning.
>>
>> In the beginning, only civilized people knew of, and used, usenet.
>> They were all polite, reasonable and knowledgeable. There were only
>> a few groups and it was easy to follow and read *all* of it. We used
>> the newsreader 'rn' over 4800 baud connections to a pdp-11 running
>> Unix and a dumb VT100 terminal. The web didn't exist. Berners-Lee
>> didn't even work at CERN yet.
>>
>> Insecure? You bet! But security wasn't yet needed. Everyone cooperated
>> to make things run better! There were hackers, sure, but they weren't
>> malicious, just curious.
>>
>> Those days are far behind us now. The pioneers have retired or died
>> and rabble has taken over.
>>
>> Jeroen Belleman
> 
> All true, but please don't insult the PDP-11. It was a beautiful
> machine.
> 
> Pity we went the barbaric 4004-8008-x86-windows route.
> 

Imagine a PDP-11, or a 68k-like machine, running at 2GHz...
Alas, money makes the choice, and it often chooses wrong.

Jeroen Belleman

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This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-08-08 17:42 +0000
  Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2026-08-10 15:54 +0000
    Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-08-10 20:53 +0200
      Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2026-08-11 15:07 +0000
        Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2026-08-11 12:14 -0500
          Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2026-08-12 23:01 +0000
            Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze john larkin <jl@htigct.com> - 2026-08-12 18:01 -0700
              Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze JM <sunaecoNoChoppedPork@gmail.com> - 2026-08-13 02:10 +0100
                Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2026-08-13 14:06 +0000
                Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-08-14 00:14 +1000
                Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2026-08-13 15:13 +0000
                Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze JM <sunaecoNoChoppedPork@gmail.com> - 2026-08-14 18:03 +0100
                Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze john larkin <jl@htigct.com> - 2026-08-13 08:56 -0700
      Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze JM <sunaecoNoChoppedPork@gmail.com> - 2026-08-11 16:07 +0100
        Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2026-08-12 23:01 +0000
          Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-08-13 10:38 +0200
            Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze john larkin <jl@htigct.com> - 2026-08-13 09:02 -0700
              Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-08-13 19:05 +0200
                Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze john larkin <jl@htigct.com> - 2026-08-13 13:06 -0700
            Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-05 23:42 -0300
              Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-09-06 10:14 +0200
                Usent history (was Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-09-06 11:08 -0300
                Re: Usent history (was Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze) Cóilín Nioclásín Glostéir <thanks-to@Taf.com> - 2026-09-06 18:47 +0000
          Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2026-08-13 18:42 +1000
        Re: This tiny gold crystal could bring quantum technology out of the deep freeze Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> - 2026-08-13 00:12 +0000

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