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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2025 22:13:43 +0000
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On 08/03/2025 20:37, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:42:42 GMT, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> 
>> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> writes:
>>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 00:21:15 -0500, c186282 wrote:
>>
>>> Relay logic was sort of fun. You were building state machines with
>>> relays,
>>> Eagle Signal electro-mechanical timers, limit switches, and so forth. I
>>> never did it but even more fascinating were some of the complex machines
>>> that were all cams, levers, gears, and springs except for the drive
>>> motor.
>>
>> I use and repair relay logic even in these digital times:
>>
>> https://pinside.com/pinball/machine/target-pool
> 
> Real solenoids, lacing twine, DCC wire, and multi-contact steppers! The
> past lives on.

I knew a guy once who was building a working 18th century stage coach 
for a museum. Ultra lightweight ash body etc.

I guess whatever turns you on...

-- 
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale 
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain