| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2161.1 | Please Forgive me if I miss it | GOLF::WILSON | Who Am I? Why am I here? | Fri Oct 16 1992 11:30 | 5 |
| Kind of ironic, that in the year we decided to stop celebrating
the service anniversaries of human employees, Digital will be
helping to celebrate the anniversary of the mill clock.
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| 2161.2 | There's more to value that money..! | BSS::GROVER | The CIRCUIT_MAN | Fri Oct 16 1992 11:58 | 13 |
| I think Digital owes it to the community....
and....
The community owes it to Digital...!
BTW...! The clock is a spectacular time piece, for those who have never
seen it.... and you get the chance... take the tour...
If I weren't in Colorado, I'd be there for the festivities..!
Bob G.
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| 2161.3 | Time capsule question... | CGOOA::DTHOMPSON | Don, of Don's ACT | Fri Oct 16 1992 14:27 | 4 |
| I wonder how many of our products will be celebrating 100 years of
running.
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| 2161.4 | Best damn printer ever made.... | ALFPTS::GCOAST::RIDGWAY | Florida Native | Fri Oct 16 1992 14:52 | 7 |
| re: I wonder how many of our products will be celebrating 100 years of
running.
Gotta plug my favorite DEC workhorse -- the LA120 printer.
Keith R>
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| 2161.5 | | TOMK::KRUPINSKI | Repeal the 16th Amendment! | Fri Oct 16 1992 17:13 | 5 |
| The PDP-11 will be hitting the quarter century mark in a few
years... And aren't a pretty fair number of PDP-8s still in
use? Would be nice if Alpha AXP (tm) joined the club...
Tom_K
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| 2161.6 | Time to upgrade | DESERT::HORN | | Thu Oct 22 1992 17:33 | 8 |
| The clock.....100 years old, sounds like time to upgrade to me...how
about a digital clock (or is the correct spelling Digital?). The East
could use a few new things.
As for the long lasting LA120.....Cheers to the plant that made them!!!
PNO, Phoenix. By the way, don't send any back for repair...we are
closed.
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| 2161.7 | :-) | MU::PORTER | meetings - the alternative to work | Mon Oct 26 1992 11:12 | 11 |
| >The clock.....100 years old, sounds like time to upgrade to me...how
>about a digital clock (or is the correct spelling Digital?). The East
>could use a few new things.
Why replace existing technology when it's perfectly adequate
for the job? Seems like a failure to understand the total
environment if you ask me; bound to lead to consumer disatisfaction.
Anyway, if digital watches are such a neat idea, why does any
system with a halfway-decent graphics ability *always* have
a program to display an analogue clock?
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| 2161.8 | agree and concure with last caller on the clock changes | STAR::ABBASI | I love DECspell | Mon Oct 26 1992 13:52 | 16 |
| ref .-1
I agree whole heart tightly with Dave on this, I think it is because
the brain itself is analog , people feel more relaxed wearing a
an analog clocks.
i never felt comfortable with digital clocks, it takes me longer
to read time from digital clock than analog.
plus there is some nice feeling about seeing a dial rotate around and
move ever so harmoniously in circle, round and round, this feelings
you dont get from looking at a cold numbers that are being added and
subtracted with no feeling to them.
/nasser
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| 2161.9 | Digits (and their ilk) are digital | CGOOA::DTHOMPSON | Don, of Don's ACT | Wed Nov 18 1992 16:36 | 16 |
| Re .7 & .8
The brain is NOT analog, it is Digital, however, life and time� are
analog so we have learned to measure so. Besides a digital clock just
tells you what has been and an analog clock shows you what's coming as
well. (Digital = 7:52)
(Analog = 52 after 7 OR 8 to 8)
(Analog interpreted by digital human = about 10 to 8)
� Fredkin believes - and may well be right - that time is actually
digital in nature and happens in actual ticks which are very small. As
particulate matter appears so formed, there is no reason this could not
be true as well.
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| 2161.10 | | MU::PORTER | savage pencil | Wed Nov 18 1992 17:45 | 12 |
| >The brain is NOT analog, it is Digital
(Not that I know anything about this, but)
On what level? As far as I can recall, a neuron can be triggered
either by a relatively large stimulus from a few neighbouring
neurons, or by a smaller stimulus from a larger number of
neurons. Sounds awfully analogue to me.
On the other hand, it sounds plausible enough that time (and also
space) is discrete.
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| 2161.11 | the final word | STAR::ABBASI | Nobel price winner, expected 2035 | Wed Nov 18 1992 23:14 | 9 |
|
if you can think while you talk , then your brain is analog, if you
must pause while talking to collect your thoughts before you say
the rest of it, then your brain must be digital.
and please, lets values the difference here.
/Nasser
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| 2161.12 | | CGOOA::DTHOMPSON | Don, of Don's ACT | Thu Nov 19 1992 14:30 | 13 |
| re: -.1 Multiprocessing/timesharing or whatever is irrelevant to the
analog/digital nature of the thinking machine involved.
re: -.2 Your arguement basically says: input up to some level = 0;
after that level = 1 This is digital.
re: -.3 (my own note) I meant: "The brain is digital." The typo in
"The brain is Digital" is understandable, considering how many times I
must type the word 'digital' in the corporate and therefore capitalized
context, but is quite incorrect. Provably incorrect for all those of
us older than the company.
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| 2161.13 | Smallest unit of time... | MAY21::PSMITH | Peter H. Smith,MLO5-5/E71,223-4663,ESB | Mon Dec 28 1992 17:32 | 3 |
| Time is definitely discrete. The National Bureau of Standards has already
chosen the smallest unit: The interval between when a Manhattan traffic
light turns green and the cabby behind you honks his horn.
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