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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: 16 Dec 2024 21:14:47 GMT
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:34:24 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

>    Very true that they "over-built" in the 1800s. Fails were usually due
>    to some unrealized design fault, not the overall-average strength of
>    the structure. Building on old swamp-land was a common error.

One of the first things we were exposed to in the engineering curriculum 
was the Tacoma Narrows bridge as how not to do things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)

Moisseiff was a product of the Baltic Polytechnic Institute and Columbia 
University, not RPI, fortunately.