On 8/24/2017 9:54 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:40:52 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/24/17 7:30 PM, wrote:


Here we go again. hehehehehe.

Another brain fart from Harry. I understand technical things are
beyond your comprehension but you don't need to be so proud of it.


I don't have any problems moving .jpg's to and fro. I know better than
to try to do so with my usenet provider in a "non-binary" newsgroup or
whatever was being tried that didn't work.

Oh, and I had more than 50 articles published in PC Week, PC Magazine,
BYTE and a few lesser pubs. I had a biweekly column in PC Week. Your
computer oriented technical articles consisted of...???

Uh huh. So If I go look at the archives of PC week or PC Mag I will
see a lot of "technical" articles from Harry Krause? We are not
talking about case styling and the feel of the keyboard are we?



They were probably letters to the editor.

In fairness, I remember reading something Harry wrote in some PC
magazine. He used to volunteer to do beta testing and provided feedback.

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 7:29:23 AM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 8/24/2017 9:54 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:40:52 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/24/17 7:30 PM, wrote:


Here we go again. hehehehehe.

Another brain fart from Harry. I understand technical things are
beyond your comprehension but you don't need to be so proud of it.


I don't have any problems moving .jpg's to and fro. I know better than
to try to do so with my usenet provider in a "non-binary" newsgroup or
whatever was being tried that didn't work.

Oh, and I had more than 50 articles published in PC Week, PC Magazine,
BYTE and a few lesser pubs. I had a biweekly column in PC Week. Your
computer oriented technical articles consisted of...???

Uh huh. So If I go look at the archives of PC week or PC Mag I will
see a lot of "technical" articles from Harry Krause? We are not
talking about case styling and the feel of the keyboard are we?



They were probably letters to the editor.

In fairness, I remember reading something Harry wrote in some PC
magazine. He used to volunteer to do beta testing and provided feedback.

Yabut, he said he was published in BYTE. That was a highly technical magazine written by very competent engineers. They published stuff like schematics of computer circuits complete with timing diagrams and sample code to perform complex functions. If true, they must have needed some fluff filler piece because he doesn't have the engineering chops to write anything that they would normally publish.

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:53:15 -0700 (PDT), Its Me
wrote:

Yabut, he said he was published in BYTE. That was a highly technical magazine written by very
competent engineers. They published stuff like schematics of computer circuits complete with
timing diagrams and sample code to perform complex functions. If true, they must have needed
some fluff filler piece because he doesn't have the engineering chops to write anything that they
would normally publish.

===

I was an early subscriber to BYTE and still have some very early
editions laying around here somewhere. They used to run monthly
articles by an engineer named Steve Ciarcia, "Ciarcia's Circuit
Cellar". I don't think I ever built any of his circuits but always
enjoyed reading about them since I had an engineering/electronics
background.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Ciarcias-Circuit-Cellar/dp/0070110190

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_(magazine)

Science fiction author and PhD, Jerry Pournelle, was another regular
contributor that I enjoyed reading every month. His column was called
"Chaos Manor" and had a wide following.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle

Our friend Harree was never anywhere close to being on the same
technical level as their regular contributors, and frankly I never
remember seeing his name even though I was a regular reader.

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On 8/25/17 12:50 PM, wrote:

Our friend Harree was never anywhere close to being on the same
technical level as their regular contributors, and frankly I never
remember seeing his name even though I was a regular reader.

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Never claimed I was. Oh, I visited Citibank headquarters at least twice
when my one Detroit clients was being purchased...no one mentioned your
name. Of course, we were dealing with line executives, not staff pukes.

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/25/17 12:50 PM, wrote:

Our friend Harree was never anywhere close to being on the same
technical level as their regular contributors, and frankly I never
remember seeing his name even though I was a regular reader.

---


Never claimed I was. Oh, I visited Citibank headquarters at least twice
when my one Detroit clients was being purchased...no one mentioned your
name. Of course, we were dealing with line executives, not staff pukes.

So you hung out with the people you call the crooks and never met any
actual working people.

On 8/26/17 11:03 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/25/17 12:50 PM, wrote:

Our friend Harree was never anywhere close to being on the same
technical level as their regular contributors, and frankly I never
remember seeing his name even though I was a regular reader.

---


Never claimed I was. Oh, I visited Citibank headquarters at least twice
when my one Detroit clients was being purchased...no one mentioned your
name. Of course, we were dealing with line executives, not staff pukes.

So you hung out with the people you call the crooks and never met any
actual working people.



In those days, Citicorp was run by a liberal arts grad who first noticed
my client because of well-received statistical analyses and reports of
U.S. housing and commercial markets we published for the client.
Everyone associated with researching, compiling, and writing the
narratives was a liberal arts grad. The bank bought the client for $29 a
share in 1970 or so when it was trading OTC for $5 a share. Even I was
able to make a few bucks on the sale.

Citicorp later had to divest itself of the client for antitrust reasons.

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 11:31:40 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

In those days, Citicorp was run by a liberal arts grad

===

That would be either John Reed or Walter Wriston, bull**** on either.
Reed had an MBA from MIT, and Wriston had a Masters from Tufts'
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

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On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 11:03:29 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 08:31:50 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/25/17 12:50 PM, wrote:

Our friend Harree was never anywhere close to being on the same
technical level as their regular contributors, and frankly I never
remember seeing his name even though I was a regular reader.

---


Never claimed I was. Oh, I visited Citibank headquarters at least twice
when my one Detroit clients was being purchased...no one mentioned your
name. Of course, we were dealing with line executives, not staff pukes.

So you hung out with the people you call the crooks and never met any
actual working people.


===

Yes, funny stuff. And of course those of us in IT management and
engineering never regarded ourselves as being "staff pukes," more like
the operational back bone of the industry.

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On 8/25/2017 9:53 AM, Its Me wrote:
On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 7:29:23 AM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 8/24/2017 9:54 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:40:52 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/24/17 7:30 PM, wrote:


Here we go again. hehehehehe.

Another brain fart from Harry. I understand technical things are
beyond your comprehension but you don't need to be so proud of it.


I don't have any problems moving .jpg's to and fro. I know better than
to try to do so with my usenet provider in a "non-binary" newsgroup or
whatever was being tried that didn't work.

Oh, and I had more than 50 articles published in PC Week, PC Magazine,
BYTE and a few lesser pubs. I had a biweekly column in PC Week. Your
computer oriented technical articles consisted of...???

Uh huh. So If I go look at the archives of PC week or PC Mag I will
see a lot of "technical" articles from Harry Krause? We are not
talking about case styling and the feel of the keyboard are we?



They were probably letters to the editor.

In fairness, I remember reading something Harry wrote in some PC
magazine. He used to volunteer to do beta testing and provided feedback.

Yabut, he said he was published in BYTE. That was a highly technical magazine written by very competent engineers. They published stuff like schematics of computer circuits complete with timing diagrams and sample code to perform complex functions. If true, they must have needed some fluff filler piece because he doesn't have the engineering chops to write anything that they would normally publish.


When it comes to computers, neither do I. :-)

I got a kick out of a visit from my younger son the other day. He
started a new job as a facilities manager for a company that uses
automatic, high volume packaging equipment. He took electronic
engineering courses when he attended MA Maritime but they only covered
digital logic circuits. They don't even teach theory anymore and vacuum
tubes, transistors, etc. are artifacts of ancient times.

One of the systems he's responsible for broke down due to a bad rotary
actuator. He was having a problem ordering a replacement because there
were two versions of it. One was a PNP type, the other a NPN. My son
had no clue what PNP or NPN meant. All he knew for sure was that they
had a magnet in them along with a small chip.

I explained he had a "Hall Effect" circuit and spent some time
explaining what PNP and NPN meant, drawing diagrams of transistors and
explaining what the base, emitter and collector were. Then I drew a
diagram of a vacuum tube with the cathode, screen grid and plate, while
explaining how it worked and the similarities in function to that of a
transistor that came later.

Now-a-days everything is on a chip the size of your little fingernail
and it probably contains a dozen or more and, or, nand or nor gates or
transistors used as gates.

On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 1:06:07 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 8/25/2017 9:53 AM, Its Me wrote:
On Friday, August 25, 2017 at 7:29:23 AM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 8/24/2017 9:54 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:40:52 -0400, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 8/24/17 7:30 PM, wrote:


Here we go again. hehehehehe.

Another brain fart from Harry. I understand technical things are
beyond your comprehension but you don't need to be so proud of it.


I don't have any problems moving .jpg's to and fro. I know better than
to try to do so with my usenet provider in a "non-binary" newsgroup or
whatever was being tried that didn't work.

Oh, and I had more than 50 articles published in PC Week, PC Magazine,
BYTE and a few lesser pubs. I had a biweekly column in PC Week. Your
computer oriented technical articles consisted of...???

Uh huh. So If I go look at the archives of PC week or PC Mag I will
see a lot of "technical" articles from Harry Krause? We are not
talking about case styling and the feel of the keyboard are we?



They were probably letters to the editor.

In fairness, I remember reading something Harry wrote in some PC
magazine. He used to volunteer to do beta testing and provided feedback.

Yabut, he said he was published in BYTE. That was a highly technical magazine written by very competent engineers. They published stuff like schematics of computer circuits complete with timing diagrams and sample code to perform complex functions. If true, they must have needed some fluff filler piece because he doesn't have the engineering chops to write anything that they would normally publish.


When it comes to computers, neither do I. :-)

I got a kick out of a visit from my younger son the other day. He
started a new job as a facilities manager for a company that uses
automatic, high volume packaging equipment. He took electronic
engineering courses when he attended MA Maritime but they only covered
digital logic circuits. They don't even teach theory anymore and vacuum
tubes, transistors, etc. are artifacts of ancient times.

One of the systems he's responsible for broke down due to a bad rotary
actuator. He was having a problem ordering a replacement because there
were two versions of it. One was a PNP type, the other a NPN. My son
had no clue what PNP or NPN meant. All he knew for sure was that they
had a magnet in them along with a small chip.

I explained he had a "Hall Effect" circuit and spent some time
explaining what PNP and NPN meant, drawing diagrams of transistors and
explaining what the base, emitter and collector were. Then I drew a
diagram of a vacuum tube with the cathode, screen grid and plate, while
explaining how it worked and the similarities in function to that of a
transistor that came later.

Now-a-days everything is on a chip the size of your little fingernail
and it probably contains a dozen or more and, or, nand or nor gates or
transistors used as gates.

It's worse than that. Those tiny little chips contain a whole lot more than just gates. The days of building logic circuits using gates in dedicated chips is pretty much gone. Now the vast majority is done with programmable logic devices (PLDs) and their variants where you just design the logic in an app and assign the inputs and outputs to the pins, then program the chip to perform that operation. A complex programmable logic device (CPLD) can contain 10's of thousand of logic gates, and is programmed after being soldered on to the board with serial data (usually JTAG) while in-circuit.