Had an Adams rig.
looked something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72lVCKUaN0c
IIRC, it had certain channels where you could only talk to other Adams users...
Oh, and another thing. 30 years? Bloody hell I'm old...
Posts by Jacko
12 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jul 2009
UK CB radio crowd celebrates three decades of legality
Celebrating the 55th anniversary of the hard disk
Friday 16th September 2011 16:19 GMT 
Memories...
"once upon a time there was no online data stored separately from a program's data in the computer's dynamic memory, which, of course, disappeared as soon as the application stopped running. "
I was told a story buy a now long retired colleague which was about how when working for ICL in the sixties, he sold a second hand magnetic drum storage unit to a firm in Australia. The thing was crated up and shipped via steam-ship around the horn and was duly plugged in in Sydney 8 weeks later. When they fired it up, it still had the last program that was run on it, er, on it. If you get my drift.
El Reg to unleash rocket-powered spaceplane
Praying for meltdown: The media and the nukes
Vulture 1 sprouts wings and a tail
Firefox 3.6 goes live and final
Trouser-bomb clown attacks - how much should we laugh?
Historian slams 'absolutely crazy' UK time zone
Friday 23rd October 2009 11:58 GMT
@ lIsRT
You flagged it with a joke icon, but this is exactly what the romans did.
"How the Romans Measured Time
One measured time in ancient days by the length of daylight. As the earth makes its way around the sun, the number of daylight hours change. For the Romans who divided the day into equal parts of daytime and nighttime, the length of those parts varied with the amount of light. Unlike our hour of a constant 60 minutes, the Roman hour could be anywhere from 40 minutes to 80 minutes. Consider Alaska where one can easily experience darkness for 22 hours with daylight of 2 hours. The Romans would have calculated the day then at one of twelve 10 minutes hours and the night of twelve 110 minute hours. The Romans never experienced such extremes of course but this example serves to clarify the idea of the division of hours or watches.
Time was measured with sundials, waterclocks and sand glasses."
Biting the hand that feeds IT
