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| Thread ID: 40198 | 2003-12-01 08:38:00 | how do they make it... | hazza (2704) | Press F1 |
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| 196135 | 2003-12-01 19:51:00 | Hi hazza Just steering/dragging this post back towards your question - try HERE (http://www,howstuffworks.com) | Scouse (83) | ||
| 196136 | 2003-12-01 20:30:00 | Metla just has to get that down in book form,his fortune will be made,it's as good a story I have heard;) | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 196137 | 2003-12-01 21:17:00 | Now really. Hazza asks a perfectly honest, almost comprehensible question and you lot immediately hijack the thread. I mean, what is it with Elephant and his cows? Beet seems to have a fruity obsession - although that probably makes sense for a beetle. Meanwhile Metla emerges from the darkest and most paranoid archives of the X Files. And Laura - Ozymandias?????!!!!!!! Shelley will be turning in his grave. As for Laura : everyone knows that Aristotle didn't invent the camera obscura because they didn't have shoeboxes in those days. Dear oh dear. What a lot of nonsense. Haven't had such a good laugh since the last thread on cows, capacity of fridges et al. Keep going. :D :D :D |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 196138 | 2003-12-01 21:20:00 | OOPS - apologies to Jen C re Aristotle. :8} | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 196139 | 2003-12-02 02:06:00 | As Winston says a perfectly valid question. Perhaps people are trying to build up their postings for next Xmas :) Things dont just happen overnight hazza, they evolve gradually building on whats gone before. Take the PC monitor as an example, it wasnt just suddenly invented, it goes back to 1897 when Karl Ferdind Braun, building on what others had done before him like William Crookes, developed a cathode ray tube with fluoreescent screen and with extra electrodes that could deleflect the elecron beam to produce a trace on the screen. This was before valves, so no amplification. You can use the internet to discover lots of history of how things were developed. inventors.about.com |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 196140 | 2003-12-02 02:09:00 | spelling: fluorescent, deflect | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 196141 | 2003-12-02 02:51:00 | I remember studying the history of computers in computer classes . There are several guys that you should look at John Von Neumann : . cs . vt . edu/~history/VonNeumann . html#4" target="_blank">ei . cs . vt . edu Allen Turing: . cs . vt . edu/~history/Turing . html" target="_blank">ei . cs . vt . edu Charles Babbage (of course): . cs . vt . edu/~history/Babbage . html" target="_blank">ei . cs . vt . edu and William Shockley: . nobel . se/physics/laureates/1956/shockley-bio . html . " target="_blank">www . nobel . se Basically if you like Babbage started the computing thing, by developing a machine to calculate maths, and it developed from there . Some light reading ;) seriously though it is quite interesting . These guys were very, very smart and very, very dedicated . You should have nothing but respect for them, they made the world what it is today . A lot of thoughts and vacumm tubes went on the line before a monitor was even deduced ;) . Those were the days, you ain't a real programmer unless you use punch cards :D - David p . s . STOP THE THREAD HIJACKING PLEASE! |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 196142 | 2003-12-02 02:56:00 | Thanks for all your replies, ell most of them anyway, i now have bit better understanded of how they made them and all that. häzza |
hazza (2704) | ||
| 196143 | 2003-12-02 03:45:00 | > As Winston says a perfectly valid question Please take note Beetle, Thomas, Elephant et al. I'm now accepted as a serious geek. No more frivolity. ]:) You'll just have to make your own fun. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 196144 | 2003-12-02 04:50:00 | It will be sad to lose you Win from our humour group.I understand how you feel though,if I had been accepted int the dry geek group I would have accepted. Maybe in a few years we will be able to join,but until then good luck. |
Thomas (1820) | ||
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