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Edward Ouellette (edo@casbah.acns.nwu.edu) wrote: : I think Dean got hit by a pitched ball the other night... he got pinch hit for : and didn't play against Baltimore tonight... whats up with that? Is he hurt? : Please tell me he's not...  He evidentally got hit in the elbow by a Fernando pitch.  His arm swelled from the elbow to the wrist (or something like that).  They took X-rays of the arm and there is nothing damaged.  He missed the last game with the Orioles, but he is suppose to be ready for the next game.  Hope this helps.
In article <1qplh7$e2g@agate.berkeley.edu>, jtchern@ocf.berkeley.edu (Joseph Hernandez) wrote:   > If people on USENET really don't want to see the postings I do to > rec.sport.baseball on a daily basis, please just let me know. If the response > is overwhelming against the posts, I won't do it anymore.  >  > Thanks for your time. >  > Joseph Hernandez    Mr. Hernandez Ñ-       I apologize for the misunderstanding.  I explained that I know that it is essential for some fans to get scores here, for they cannot get them elsewhere.  I have no problem with what you do, posting scores AFTER the games have been completed.  However, like I said earlier, I don't think it is a necessity to post scores during the middle of games, like some others have come to practice.
rauser@fraser.sfu.ca (Richard John Rauser) writes:    >   Here's an easy question for someone who knows nothing about baseball...  >   What city do the California Angels play out of?     Anaheim.
Dave 'Almost Cursed the Jays' Kirsch (kirsch@staff.tc.umn.edu) wrote: : In article <34592@oasys.dt.navy.mil> odell@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Bernard O'farmer : by the'Dell) writes: : >I am not quite sure of the reasons, but the old man was certainly : >not "enraptured" by ole Harry.  :   But maybe his wife was :-)   :   I don't claim to know whether it's true or not, but a couple different : people (totally unrelated) have said Harry was 'relieved' of his duties : because he had more than platonic relations with Augie Busch's wife. : Judgement is left to the individual, cuz I sure don't claim to be an : impeachable source in this case.   Among those who have said it (well, not quite SAID it but certainly alluded to it) is Bing Devine, Redbird GM or some other administrator at the time.  I heard Bing speak about it at last year's SABR National.  BTW, have we had a show of hands about who will be attending this year's SABR National in San Diego?  I'll be there... --
I believe that Rusty Staub was also a jewish ball-player Also, Mordaci Brown back in the early 20th century.  He was a pitcher whose nickname was "3 fingers" Brown....for obvious reasons....he had 3 fingers.
The media is beating the incident at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday to death, but I haven't seen anything in rsb yet.  Gerald Perry of the Cardinals pinch hit in the eighth inning with two on and his club down by a run.  He stroked a line drive into the right field corner.  The ball cleared the three-foot high fence and went into the crowd.  Darryl, racing over from right center, got to the spot in time to reach his glove up over the short fence, but he missed the ball.  A fan sitting in the front row, wearing a mitt, reached up and caught the ball.  Home run.  Now I've seen the replay several times and I have concluded that Darryl missed the ball, and that the fan's glove was essentially behind Darryl's.  Several Dodger fans with seats in the immediate vicinity have claimed that the fan unquestionably interfered with Strawberry.  What cannot be disputed, however, is that the fan who caught the ball never took his eye off it;  he was oblivious to where the fielder was playing.  He was also quite exuberant as soon as he realized he had made the catch.  That exuberance disappeared immediately, however, when Strawberry went into a tirade at the man.  All reports indicate he used a lot of profanity and accused the man of interference, and therefore of costing the Dodgers a game.  Shortly afterwards other fans hurled food and beverages toward the man who made the catch.  Dodger Stadium officials started to remove him from the park, but then relented and just relocated him to another area.  In an interview after the game, Lasorda blamed the fan for the loss.  Strawberry also went into a tirade about how the fans are stupid and they don't care about  winning.  L.A. Times columnists similarly blasted the man who made the catch.  Before each Dodger game the public address announcer makes a speech wherein he says that fans are welcome to the souvenirs of balls that are hit into the stands as long as they do not interfere with any  that are in the field of play.  Was the fan wrong?  Should he have been more aware of the situation and acted to avoid any possibility of interference?  Or was he human and just reacting?  By the way, he is a season ticket holder and on his request the Dodgers have relocated his seats to another area of the Stadium where future interference is impossible.  Others have questioned why Darryl should be so concerned with what the fan did when he has a grand total of 1 rbi through the first nine games.  I question what he was doing in right center with a left-handed pull hitter up and the game on the line.  Had he been closer to the play, he certainly would have had a much better chance of catching the ball.  But I guess the big debate continues as to what are the responsibilities of the fan.    --	The Beastmaster
Comments about "who needs backup copies"?  and "YOU do" deleted....  I'll toss in my 2 cents worth - I've begun to think that distribution disks are made on some of the least reliable floppy disk stocks available. We've been especially plagued by Borland's distribution disks.  I'm  lucky if I can install from them as many as 3 times before they crap  out on me.  So definitely, as a matter of course we ALWAYS make copies to do our installations with.
In article <1qlg9o$d7q@sequoia.ccsd.uts.EDU.AU>  writes: >  >  > I really don't know where to post this question so I figured that > this board would be most appropriate. > I was wondering about those massive concrete cylinders that > are ever present at nuclear poer sites. They look like cylinders > that have been pinched in the middle. Does anybody know what the > actual purpose of those things are?. I hear that they're called > 'Cooling Towers' but what the heck do they cool? > I hope someone can help  >   This is definitely the wrong newsgroup for this, but never mind. Any machine powered by heat (motor, steam- or gasturbine, steamengine,   thermoelement,etc) work the better, the bigger the temperature difference   between input and output is. Because You never get all thermic energy out of   the powering medium (steam, burning gaz, etc), You have to eliminate the rest   of the energy to keep the efficency high. A thermal electric power plant (coal,   oil or atomic power) works just the same way. You heat water (steam) to power   the turbine and generators. Because You don't get the whole energy out of the   steam (efficency is never 100%) You have to cool down this steam again by   something else. Most power plants use cooling towers for this purpose (some   type of mega-refrigerator...). Others use water of a river (ecologically not   unobjectionable). Got it ?  Cheers   Robert  (HB9NBY)
Can someone tell me where to find 120volt 3 watt 40 mA fans that fit the standard computer mounting size )ie. 3 and 1/8 inch wide and 4 inches diagonal from hole to hole (hole=where bolt or screw goes through.  I have found higher (NOISY) fans that are 120 v 6 watt, but I need a quite fan.  I can use 12 volt as well, but found just about all 12 volt fans to be noisy.  I also find that the 120 v fans are not only quieter, but the blade shape has a lot to do with it.  I have a dead fan that was quiet in it's day.  It has long blades (like fan blades in a tturbo engine on a jet is the only way I can describe it.  The dead fan is ETRI Model 126LH. Actually it's not dead, it just makes a hideous rattle noise so it's stealthy qualities are void.  Thanks.
Charlie Brett (cfb@fc.hp.com) wrote: : You were right the second time, it is KNX. Believe it or not, I also : listen to KNX in the evenings here in Colorado! It's kind of fun driving : through the country listening to traffic jams on the 405. Back to your : original question. Yes, there are sensors just past every on-ramp and : off-ramp on the freeways. They're the same sensors used at most stoplights : now (coils in the pavement). You might want to give CalTrans a call or : even ask Bill Keene (KNX's traffic reporter). I doubt if just anyone can : get the information, but it would be worth asking just in case you can : get it.  I seem to remember that they sell the information (and a computer connection) to anyone willing to pay.  On the subject of the pavement sensors, can anyone tell me more about them?  --  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christopher Wolf             Electrical Engineer                cmwolf@mtu.edu
Sounds like the picture tube lost vacuum.  This would cause the filament to ignite and could actually turn the tube from a vacuum to a pressure vessel, followed by an explosion when the neck assembly (mostly likely cracked to begin with) blows off.  During the whole sequence of events, the other circuits may continue functioning, which accounts for not losing sound.
In article <16APR199323531467@rosie.uh.edu> st1my@rosie.uh.edu (Stich, Christian E.) writes: > I just installed a Motorola XC68882RC50 FPU in an Amiga A2630 board (25 MHz > 68030 + 68882 with capability to clock the FPU separately).  Previously > a MC68882RC25 was installed and everything was working perfectly.  Now the > systems displays a yellow screen (indicating a exception) when it check for > the presence/type of FPU.  When I reinstall an MC68882RC25 the system works > fine, but with the XC68882 even at 25 MHz it does not work.  The designer > of the board mentioned that putting a pullup resistor on data_strobe (470 Ohm) > might help, but that didn't change anything.  Does anybody have some > suggestions what I could do?  Does this look like a CPU-FPU communications > problem or is the particular chip dead (it is a pull, not new)? > Moreover, the place I bought it from is sending me an XC68882RC33.  I thought > that the 68882RC33 were labeled MC not XC (for not finalized mask design).  > Are there any MC68882RC33?  I, too, have a XC68882RC50 math coprocessor, which I installed succesfully in my Mega Midget Racer (clocked at 33 MHz). I have tried clocking my FPU at 28 to 50 MHz and it all worked just fine. I have a MC68030-33 CPU. I don't know why my FPU has an XC (my original 33MHz FPU was label MC68882-33), but it seems to work fine on my system. Maybe you just have a bad chip.  Stefan
Hi all,  I'm an assistant manager at a local art theater here in Columbus.  I'd like to expand our show automation a bit- namely add the capability to use cue tapes to bring the houselights up.  Our current automation consoles date from the early 60's and don't provide this function.  We already have the combo failsafe/contact rollers to read the cuetapes, and our dimmer system will raise the houselights when its fade-up control circuit (120 VAC) is momentarily closed, for at least 0.5 second.  I've tried wiring the dimmer control to a 12V relay, activated when the cue tape completes the circuit.  Low tech and simple, but there's one problem:  In order to get the 1/2 second pulse, there needs to be a sh**load of cuetape on the film.  (35mm runs at 90 feet per minute, so to get a 1/2 second pulse, there needs to be at least 9 inches of solid cuetape!)  Ideally, I would like to use a single cross-cue to accomplish this function. (A single strip of cuetape perpendicular to the length of the film) This would give a pulse of approximately 1/100 of a second. What I need is a circuit to detect the short cue and activate the relay for around 1/2 second.  The ability to adjust how long the relay is activated would be nice.  I figure this would require an RC circuit of some sort.  I'm sure some of you already have the solution figured out in your heads.  Any suggestions and schematics would be appreciated!   Thanks,  Mark Fontana
I am looking for a suitable UART for a project.  What I require  is a stand alone device (i.e. not cpu controlled) which will  receive 1200 baud RS232.  Also a nice extra would be a received  data buffer.  Please reply with any info you have.  Thanks,
I need to reduce the speed of a Boxer fan by about 30-50%. I recall reading somewhere that the right capacitor in series will do it.  If this isn't a case of brain fade, can someone suggest the cap value ?  The specifics; It's a real Boxer Fan (tm). The label says 115 V, .2 amps.  Al Dykes
mdanjou@gel.ulaval.ca (Martin D'Anjou) writes: B )>>>>>>>>> Votre host est mal configure... <<<<<<<<<<<<   )Bonjour Sylvain, )	J'ai travaille avec le hc11 il y a 3 ans et je ne me souviens pas de toutes les possibilites mais je vais quand meme essayer de t'aider.  )	Je ne crois pas que downloader une programme directement dans le eeprom soit une bonne idee (le eeprom a une duree de vie limitee a 10 000 cycles il me semble). Le communication break down vient peut-etre du fait que le eeprom est long a programmer (1ms par 8 bytes mais c'est a verifier) et que les delais de transfer de programme s19 vers la memoire sont excedes. Normalement, les transferts en RAM du code s19 est plus rapide car le RAM est plus rapide que le eeprom en ecriture.  )	C'est tout ce que ma memoire me permet de me souvenir!  )Bonne chance,  Oh yeah easy for him to say!...
In article <1993Apr26.235820.10742@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> gvolk@nyx.cs.du.edu (Greg Volk) writes: >What I usually use...and this stuff is only good on glass....is either Acetone, >or a little Benzene. The latter of the two is a bit dangerous (possibly a                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^ >carcinogen(sp?)) but it usualy gets the job done. I imagine you can you the two   ^^^^^^^^ >solvents on most metals as well as glass, but keep the stuff away from plastic.  Benzene is most definitely a carcinogen. If you can get your hands on it  * Don't use it! *
Once upon a time, long long ago in this news group, someone posted a schematic for a 1-bit A/D converter.  Well I just found a use for the little monster.  Anyone out there still got this text file? It had a flip-flop, a resistor and a cap, and a comparator/op-amp I  think.  I would be extremely thankful to anyone who could mail me the  schematic or post it to the news-group.
In article <1993Apr2.170955.1749@cmkrnl.com>, jeh@cmkrnl.com writes:  |> I might add that collecting last year's data books (or even ones two years out |> of date) is usually pretty cheap, and has benefits besides:  You usually DON'T |> want to base a design on a brand-new chip.  There may be bugs; availability may |> be limited; the data sheets may be missing critical information that will show |> up in the ap notes in next year's data books.  Kinda like buying Version 1.0 of |> a major new software package:  Sometimes you get lucky, but don't count on it.  There are two more reasons to save old databooks and then beyond two years--obsoleted parts and better application notes and tutorials.  When a part is dropped from future production planning, such as the National MM-series white noise generators, camera sync generators, etc., it will disappear from current databooks although it still may be produced for a short time (or be available from stock somewhere). Now, if you have some old plans calling for such a device, or you have a dead gadget on your workbench and it has such a part in it, you'll know the functions so you can troubleshoot and substitute as necessary.  The old GE thyristor data books contain real good tutorials on SCR and triac applications that are not found elsewhere, for example.  |> > In summary, read. READ! ****READ!!!**** That's how you'll know what to |> > design in, which parts to use, and how to solve the intractable problem |> > that your boss has presented you with.  |>  |> It helps to have a prodigous memory for details...  Here, here!...  --  --------------------------------------------------------------------        Dave Medin			Phone:	(205) 730-3169 (w)     SSD--Networking				(205) 837-1174 (h)     Intergraph Corp.        M/S GD3004 		Internet: dtmedin@catbyte.b30.ingr.com   Huntsville, AL 35894		UUCP:  ...uunet!ingr!b30!catbyte!dtmedin     ******* Everywhere You Look (at least around my office) *******
spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:  >In article <1qg98sINNokf@sheoak.ucnv.edu.au> jeff@redgum.ucnv.edu.au (j. pethybridge) writes: >>	Hello again, >> I asked this a year ago, but i am still looking. >> I am getting sick of having to use a HC373   >Jeff, just use the damned 373.   Sure, there are oddball >latched memory chips, but do you really want to use them?  >Sorry if I'm pedantic but: design your circuit using >reasonably available parts, and move on to more important >problems.  We're looking at a series of chips by WSI, the PSD3xx series. They have _mega_ address decoding logic on them, various ROM sizes (upto 1Mbit), various RAM sizes (upto 16 K), and 19 I/O ports which can be chip select lines, I/O or the buffered address lines.  Cute chip, 44 pin PLCC package.  Second sourcing may be a problem though :-(
AL>>        Question:   Is there a certain device out there that I can AL>>                    use to find out the number to the line? AL>>        Thanks for any response. AL>>                                                    Al  AL>There is a number you can call which will return a synthesized AL>voice telling you the number of the line.  Unfortunately, for the AL>life of me I can't remember what it is. The telephone technicians AL>use it all the time.  We used to play around with this in our AL>dorm rooms since there were multiple phone lines running between AL>rooms.  It probably wouldn't help for you to post the number, since it appears to be different in each area.  For what it's worth, in the New Orleans area the number is 998-877-6655 (easy to remember, what?)    * SLMR 2.1 * Ask me anything: if I don't know, I'll make up something.
Tony Wayne writes:  >What is Pink noise and how is it used in sound experiments? >-tony  Pink noise is a random signal with more low-frequency components than white noise.  If you look at the frequency spectrum of white noise at a frequency analyzer, you will find that the spectrum power density is flat, which means that every frequency is present in the noise signal.  Often pink noise is obtained from white noise by integrating of low-pass filtering a white noise signal. Therefore pink noise contains much more low-frequency components.  The effect of pink noise is sometimes used to simulate thunder or roaring animals. An additional low-pass filter with variable cutoff frequency will explain you why.  Enjoy it.
From article <1993Apr26.110250.5243@nmt.edu>, by erickson@azure.nmt.edu (Alan Erickson): > 	I'm trying to bring in 8+ bits to a PC, and would like > 	to use interrupt-driven routines. Without buying an IO > 	board or making a new port, _where_ can I bring in these > 	bits? LPT seems to have only a few inputs, but I've heard > 	rumours that some LPTs have bidirectional lines. Anybody > 	know fer sure? If any bi-d LPTs, which boards have them > 	(I'll be running a new 386DX-33)? >  > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Alan Erickson   erickson@baltic.nmt.edu		 >  > to all SunRayce '93 competitors: I hope you're getting > about as much sleep as I am..... > ------------------------------------------------------------------
Just a shot here, but ya never know:  I once bought a (REAL) cheap equalizer / power amp for my car tape player  at one of those motel-room truckload sales, and it sounded great.  For a  while, that is.  Then one channel quit entirely.  I opened it up, and the  amplifier chip for the bad channel had simply melted some of its solder  joints attaching it to the PCB.  I soldered them back and it worked fine.   I just had to keep the volume a bit lower than I did before.  Probably  lousy heat sinking.  You said "a nice Alpine" which I'm sure is a few orders of mag higher in quality than the P.O.S. I had.  But the point is - look inside before you scrap it, since you OCCASIONALLY find something you can repair. Maybe even the same thing I found.
kennehra@logic.camp.clarkson.edu (Rich"TheMan"Kennehan) says: >Hi.  I was doing research on subliminal suggestion for a psychology >paper, and I read that one researcher flashed hidden messages on the >TV screen at 1/200ths of a second.  Is that possible?  I thought the  Take a look over in alt.folklore.urban.  There is a thread about subliminal messages on TV.  The fact that subliminal messages don't work aside, an image can't be flashed on a TV screen fast enough to not be noticed. --    Bob Billson, KC2WZ                          | internet: bob@kc2wz.bubble.org   $nail:  21 Bates Way,  Westfield, NJ 07090  | uucp:     ...!uunet!kc2wz!bob
Has anybody out there used/tested these new Fluke Scopemeters? How do they compare to a low-end Tectronix oscilloscope? Are there any big drawbacks about these handheld scopes when compared to the benchtop scopes of the same price range ($1000-$2000)?  Any info on the Fluke Scopemeters would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks,
In article <C5yqDE.Cq0@ecf.toronto.edu> gladman@ecf.toronto.edu (GLADMAN AVIV) writes: > >In order to emit blue light, a semiconductor must have a band gap energy >within the region of 2.6 to 2.8 electron Volts. According to my physical >electronics prof, you can't get an LED with that band gap. That's why you >don't find blue LEDs or, for that matter, some other colour of LEDs. That >is not to say that blue LEDs can't be found.  I've seen 'blue' LEDs sold, >but they were just your typical visible light LED in a blue plastic covering. >They didn't emit very much light...  Um...  1) Your Professor if just plain wrong.  Although blue LEDs are one heck of a lot less efficient than red ones. 2) "Typical visible light LEDs" don't really exist.  LEDs have a fairly narrow region of transmittence.  (Since the Fermi energy around either side of the band gap falls off exponentially, blah, blah...)  >Source: Solid State Electronic Devices (Ben G. Streetman, 3d ed., Prentice >Hall)  You might want to check the copyright date on that. :-)  Blue LEDs most certainly do exist, I've got a bunch at work.  Cree Research makes them (probably along with other companies...  Cree is big in materials science, though; they advertise in the stuff like Physics Today, etc.).  You can buy them from JameCo (I think), DigiKey (definitely), and plenty of other distributors.  Actually, these days you _can_ get a "typical visible light" LED -- it's called a "rainbow LED", and I've forgotten who makes it (they advertise in EDN and many of the other trade rags, though).  It combines a reg, green, and blue LED all on one chip (and has four leads).  Nifty device, although it's probably fairly expensive.
From: payne@crl.dec.com (Andrew Payne) Message-ID: <1993Apr20.004418.11548@crl.dec.com> Organization: DEC Cambridge Research Lab Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 00:44:18 GMT   Does anyone know if a source for the TCM3105 modem chips (as used in the Baycom and my PMP modems)?  Ideally, something that is geared toward  hobbyists:  small quantity, mail order, etc.  For years, we've been buying them from a distributor (Marshall) by the hundreds for PMP kits.  But orders have dropped to the point where we can no longer afford to offer this service.  And all of the distributors I've checked have some crazy minimum order ($100, or so).  I'd like to find a source for those still interested in building PMP kits. Any suggestions?  --  Andrew C. Payne DEC Cambridge Research Lab ---  . R110B:Wnet HAL_9000
Hi there,  Does anyone know whether the PUFF RF design package is available via ftp from any site? As I understand it, it is in the public domain - please correct me if I'm wrong on this one.  Any other PD RF design tools out there that can be recommended? Especially microstrip filter tools...  73's Lehane