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February 6, 2004
This came across the NANOG mailing list earlier. A really nice history lesson for those interested in networks.
Category found things
mmm…..meat!
September 3, 2003
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July 17, 2003
Remember not too long ago when I posted something about all the tubes I acquired? Well, as part of that I acquired some plans for the HAL-4096, the first computer ever used to demonstrate the synthesis of music. Anyway, just now I received some email back from one of the people who worked on it, Dave Cox:
Click here to read…
Wow.
June 9, 2003
Reading through these lab notes, it seems that Mr. Jan [CENSORED] once read about a home-made mini-computer called the HAL-4096 and wanted to build one himself. Enclosed in these notes are letters passed back and forth between Mr. [CENSORED] and Mr. Hal Chamberlin. Thanks to Google, I’ve learned that the HAL-4096 was built by Mr. Chamberlin and a Mr. David Cox back in 1966. Mr. Chamberlin was also the first person to demonstrate music synthesis on a computer, the old classic recording of ‘Daisy, Daisy’ that I’m sure everyone remembers hearing at one point or another.
I’m just amazed… Read on for more…
Woo! Nukes!
February 20, 2003
A few weeks ago I started getting really interested in the Shelby Township area Nike Surface to Air missle (SAM) site. This place used to exist in the area between 22 Mile, Ryan, and Shelby roads. (More information here.) Well, I came across the email address of someone who works at the site. Read below for our email correspondance… I’m really excited.
>Raye,
>
>I found your name when searching around online for information on the
>old Nike missile site in the Utica / Shelby Township area. I’m curious
>if you have some more information as to the exact location of this
>site. I’m interested in visiting the site and seeing what remains.
>
>Thanks very much…
>
>-Steve
>
>Steve Vigneau EDS Technical Advisor Group 1075 W. Entrance Drive –
>Mailstop 4N – Auburn Hills, MI Office: (X-XXX) XXX-XXX-XXXX Pager:
>XXX-XXX-XXXX / XXXXXXXXXX@epage.arch.com
>
Steve,
I teach aerospace science for Utica schools called Project INSPIRE. We
are located on the old NIke site, housed in the three remaining barracks.
I would be happy to have you visit sometime. I work school hours plus
many nights. On occasion, we meet on Saturdays for rocket launches. We
are closed this week for school vacation, but I’ll be back next week. I can share what I know of the site, and can show you blueprints of the layout and demolition plan from the 70’s. I have always been interested in preserving the history of the site.
Raye
Raye Klopfenstein
rk4mucs@ucs.misd.net
Director – Project INSPIRE
UCS Shadbush Center
4681 Riverbends Drive
Shelby Township, MI 48317
(XXX) XXX-XXXX
FAX (XXX) XXX-XXXX
www.macomb.k12.mi.us/utica/inspire/
www.ucsinspire.com
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[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]
Ah hah!
January 22, 2003
Ahh… So I finally found information on the weird fenced in hazardous waste area that borders Riverbends Park and Waldon Lakes (or Waldon Ponds or whatnot) Park in Shelby Township: http://www.epa.gov/R5Super/npl/michigan/MID067340711.htm
There were oil lagoons!!!
UPDATE: Scratch that. This is the place I’m thinking of: http://www.epa.gov/R5Super/npl/michigan/MID980410823.htm. Note the water treatment plant… That’s right in the back of the Waldon Lakes park. Unfortunately the park is all fenced in, so I can’t get to the rest of the recreation area.
Local News Sucks
October 17, 2002
Gee. WDIV / Channel 4 just had an aweful story about war driving. What a load of garbage. Hey, guess what? You just learned more about war driving from this post. Yep, that’s how detailed it was. I’ve captured it and I’ll upload it somewhere later. I screwed up and made PCM audio, so I have to rip that out, redo it as MP3 and readd it. Aww, screw it. I’ll just up it now. It’ll be at http://www.nuxx.net/files/wardrive.zip once it’s done uploading. Feel free to take it. It’s ~58MB, though.
It’s @713
October 16, 2002
This probably should have been handled as a continuation of this thread, but, oh well. Does anyone here remeber Swatch’s Internet Time. It came to be around 1996 if I recall correctly. I’ve always thought something like this would be a great idea, but we could all do it with GMT. If everyone always worked on GMT, things would be a lot easier. Of course, this would be easy for geeks to get a grasp on, but imagine trying to tell ‘normal people’ that Friends comes on at 0100 and that they get up for work at 1130. Oh well. Just another point where tradition takes the lead over techonological innovation. Like Imperal and Standard measurement over Metric.
Our Tax Dollars Hard At Work
June 15, 2002
Here’s something I came across recently. It’s a number of color (yes, color) photographs that were taken around Russia in the very early 1900s using a process involving three separate cameras and color filters. Thanks to the Library of Congress a number of these photos are available from this collection. First, read about how everything was done here. Then take a look at the full online archive of Mr. Prokudin-Gorskii’s color photos here. Thanks to the LoC we all have access to this (and many more) historical photographs online, including VERY high-res versions. I think I’m going to end up with a select few printed out and hung up around here.