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Off Topic / Re: Ctrl + V game.
« on: November 22, 2008, 02:23:25 PM »
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General Discussion / Re: Blockland's Seven Wonders - '08
« on: November 22, 2008, 11:27:51 AM »
I nominate the Grinch!
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General Discussion / Re: Blockland's Seven Wonders - '08
« on: November 22, 2008, 11:11:55 AM »
Yay. Thanks guys.
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Off Topic / Re: chocolate voting poll
« on: November 22, 2008, 11:11:06 AM »
I have never eaten dark chocolate for supper.
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Off Topic / Re: Imitate other blockland people
« on: November 22, 2008, 12:06:41 AM »I do not recall, it was a few months ago. Really vague detail in some sort of article.That's certainly a reliable source, dumbstuff.I'm just kidding. I lubs you.
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Off Topic / Re: Ctrl + V game.
« on: November 21, 2008, 11:59:45 PM »Quote from: freckleskitty link=topic=23352.msg820485#msg820485
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NOforgetYOU!!!!
Do you think that makes you look cool?
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Off Topic / Re: Ctrl + V game.
« on: November 21, 2008, 11:58:13 PM »
Although it appears it was never an official recommendation, by the mid-1950s the DRTE decided that the best way to really develop transistor techniques in a complex system was to build a computer. This was not something they needed for their own use at the time, simply an example of an extremely complex system that would test their capabilities like few other systems could. But as development continued, many of the engineers involved became more interested in computer design than electronics, outside the DRTE's charter and eventually a source of friction between the group and the DRB who funded them.
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Off Topic / Re: Imitate other blockland people
« on: November 21, 2008, 11:47:40 PM »You guys are DUMB BASSES!! But I can't even make a good argument without making myself look like an idiot. I have no idea what I'm talking about right n- HURR DURR.
*COUGH*Jannet*COUGH*
I'll kindly ask you to stay on topic.
On topic:
Although it appears it was never an official recommendation, by the mid-1950s the DRTE decided that the best way to really develop transistor techniques in a complex system was to build a computer. This was not something they needed for their own use at the time, simply an example of an extremely complex system that would test their capabilities like few other systems could. But as development continued, many of the engineers involved became more interested in computer design than electronics, outside the DRTE's charter and eventually a source of friction between the group and the DRB who funded them.
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Off Topic / Re: Imitate other blockland people
« on: November 21, 2008, 11:46:00 PM »i'm betting the internet
I was asking for a more specific answer, smartass.
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Off Topic / Re: Imitate other blockland people
« on: November 21, 2008, 11:44:12 PM »I heard they were using the original DRTE plan for a new type of computer system.
That's interesting. Where did you hear this?
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Off Topic / Re: Imitate other blockland people
« on: November 21, 2008, 11:42:22 PM »
This thread is now derailed and about DRTE Computers:
The DRTE Computer was a transistorized computer built at the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE), part of the Canadian Defence Research Board. It was one of the earlier fully transistorized machines, running in prototype form in 1957, and fully developed form in 1960. Although the performance was quite good, equal to that of contemporary machines like the PDP-1, no commercial vendors ever took up the design, and the only potential sale to the Canadian Navy's Pacific Naval Laboratories, fell through. The machine eventually ended up on display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, but the display was later removed and its current fate is unknown.
The DRTE Computer was a transistorized computer built at the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment (DRTE), part of the Canadian Defence Research Board. It was one of the earlier fully transistorized machines, running in prototype form in 1957, and fully developed form in 1960. Although the performance was quite good, equal to that of contemporary machines like the PDP-1, no commercial vendors ever took up the design, and the only potential sale to the Canadian Navy's Pacific Naval Laboratories, fell through. The machine eventually ended up on display at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, but the display was later removed and its current fate is unknown.
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Off Topic / Re: cat pics
« on: November 21, 2008, 10:34:59 PM »
I never laughed at those damned cat pictures.