I forgot about the USMC that were testing gps dropping bombs with F4s. They were a separate operation from us but working at the same time. Interesting note was that having the bombs hit in the same hole was not uncommon. They were dumb practice bombs with out explosives.
From: Lyle Cox <LyleCox@funaerosports.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, January 4, 2010 8:28:32 AM
Subject: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
Okay. I think he was a corporate pilot. He ended up flying for American Airlines.
From: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Sport_ Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Roger Poyner
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:46 PM
To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
We had several infantry troops from Ft Stewart, GA as well as engineers from I think Ft Bragg. We may have met but the name doesn't ring any bells right now.
From: Lyle Cox <LyleCox@funaerospor ts.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sat, January 2, 2010 10:42:39 PM
Subject: RE: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
A friend of mine named Keven Hughes was involved in that. Did you know him?
From: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:Sport_ Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Roger Poyner
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 9:08 PM
To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
In 1978 and 79 I was involved in the ground testing of a new fangled device at Yuma proving grounds called navstar GPS. The 1.5million dollar prototyes weighed 35lbs each. I knew they would get smaller but never dreamed how far they could go or what they could do.
From: Peter Walker <peterwalker58@ yahoo.com>
To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sat, January 2, 2010 5:05:39 PM
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
| Hello
Stupic NC machine that had a punch tape for control in 1974
Editing was simple just make a new tape Good operators could read the tape
Peter
--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Bill Hobson <wrhobson@aol. com> wrote:
From: Bill Hobson <wrhobson@aol. com>
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 9:54 AM
Ah the good old days. As a field engineer I recall having to load a deck of about 400 punch cards to load diagnostic software into the 360's with their new-fangled disk drives. IBM's disk drives had a hydraulic actuator to move the heads, held a whopping 10MB and cost something like $13k each. I know the industrial revolution was a pretty big deal, but can anything touch the scope of the silicone revolution that we got to live through? It's been amazing. Today's youth is so jaded about the technology at their fingertips, but if you really consider it, it's like magic! ----- Original Message ----- To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 5:29 PM Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen We had a few of those left(from the war I guess! actually they were still in use by the news services-the UPI the AP wire and others were still utilizing it.) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1978 when I first began to explore computers and programming. We had an IBM 360/370 Mainframe and PDP 1135/45 running the local timesharing system and we were connected to a the Central timesharing system sown in Long Beach. Some times an assignment would have the students using the punch tape mode of inputting to a computer but mostly we were utilizing the new fangled IMB punch cards(80 characters wide by ? lines and oh those 'chads' !!!) for inputting data into the IBM 360/370 Mainframe. Actually we also could use terminals but certain professors would require that you were still competent at using all resources even antiquated or soon to become antiquated technology!! . On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Bill Hobson <wrhobson@aol. com> wrote: Do you mean to tell me that there is another human on the planet that
remembers what punched paper tape was? Holy smokes! (Sorry if this bothers
anyone for being off-topic, but this is like finding your lost
birth-mother! )
----- Original Message -----
From: "John A. Price" <japrice@mindspring. com>
To: <Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com>
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
> How 'bout them 45 baud Mod 28 teletypes... I remember installing the first
> of the automated
> routing boxes so they didn't have to punch a tape at a routing stating and
> move it over to a
> reader to send it out on it's next leg.....
> John
> My first computer 1976!
>
> On Saturday 02 January 2010 09:49:07 Gary Orpe wrote:
>> Boy, that goes back in time. I remember marveling over the new 1200 baud
>> modem that were on 3 plug in cards. Remember 110 baud, TTY days gone by?
>> How did we ever manage major control systems at that rate? LOL
>>
>>
>> Gary Orpe
>>
>> K6DWT (Keeping 6 Dancing Wild Tigers)
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com
>> [mailto:Sport_ Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard
>> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 5:51 AM
>> To: Sport_Aircraft@ yahoogroups. com
>> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork,
>> Now:Helen
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:52:48PM -0800, Roger Poyner wrote:
>> > > Accepted etiquette on the Internet has been to quote and reply as I
>> > > do
>> > > for at least the last 30 years. Yes, it's been around that long, and
>> > > then some
>> >
>> > -----Problem is the internet hasn't been around that long.----
>>
>> It has indeed. You simply weren't around it then. It was around,
>> connecting
>> governments and academic institutions, in the early 1970s (then known as
>> ARPANET), and switched to the TCP/IP protocols we all use now in 1983.
>> ARPANET expanded dramatically, and its replacement (in management;
>> nothing
>> else really changed) by NSFNET in 1985, followed by NSFNET's opening to
>> the
>> commercial world in the early 1990s, produced the INternet we know today.
>>
>
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