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Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> It turns out that one of the first things you do during a coup in a |
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> small central/south american county is take over or disable the |
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> radio-telphone base stations. [Back then the base stations were much |
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> higher power and covered much larger areas than a cellular base |
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> station does these days.] |
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Yep:: Then when I got my first research lab, guess what was our first |
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'Big Donation' ? A semi trailer full of every make of those old at&t |
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unix systems; from 3B2's own up the ladder to working switchgear. |
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We wiped them clean and put Mt. Xinu unix (BSD) on them just to tick |
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off the at&t folks.... Funny thing was they just kept giving us more and |
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more equipment... |
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Kids now a days do not get to play with the 'toys' we did in college. |
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At poker flats [1] we got to shoot off rockets into the ionosphere. Try |
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that one today.... The father of the modern rocket [2] taught my son |
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Multi-Variable Calculus.... Small world when you get down to it.... |
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Want to see the latest in Mach 7 guns? |
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cheers! |
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James |
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[1] http://www.pfrr.alaska.edu/ |
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[2] |
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http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/lebanons-forgotten-space-race-in-1961-manoug-manougian-aimed-the-middle-east-at-the-stars |
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