For a bunch of guys with a college degree, you all can't spell worth ****!
#21
Well...LOL...you could be as old as I am and have first played on the Commodore. You could also be an old fart like me and have been involved in the first online community ever, started by a bunch of artistic Bay Area hippie types, and based here in Sausalito, called "The Well" and have written your posts in DOS! Many of those old creative hippie farts are retiring quite nicely now. My first PC was also the 486. Funny ironic footnote to that. I went into labor on Super Bowl Sunday 1984 with my first son, the day that Apple debuted their first Mac commercial during the Super Bowl. I got to the hospital at kick-off. Raiders vs. the Redskins. My son was born at the end of the game. I had a good laugh about that once with a certain Apple guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQG2xILVeAw
-LAFF
#23
First comp was a Tandy 2000 w/ a 486, my grandpa had a Tandy 1000 prior to that with "Chuck Yeager" flight sim. Bunch of rectangles and triangles made funny looking airplanes, but it was cool!!!!
#24
Baud: pronounced bawd, the number of signaling elements that occur each second. The term is named after J.M.E. Baudot, the inventor of the Baudot telegraph code.
At slow speeds, only one bit of information (signaling element) is encoded in each electrical change. The baud, therefore, indicates the number of bits per second that are transmitted. For example, 300 baud means that 300 bits are transmitted each second (abbreviated 300 bps ). Assuming asynchronous communication, which requires 10 bits per character, this translates to 30 characters per second (cps). For slow rates (below 1,200 baud), you can divide the baud by 10 to see how many characters per second are sent.
At higher speeds, it is possible to encode more than one bit in each electrical change. 4,800 baud may allow 9,600 bits to be sent each second. At high data transfer speeds, therefore, data transmission rates are usually expressed in bits per second (bps) rather than baud. For example, a 9,600 bps modem may operate at only 2,400 baud.
At slow speeds, only one bit of information (signaling element) is encoded in each electrical change. The baud, therefore, indicates the number of bits per second that are transmitted. For example, 300 baud means that 300 bits are transmitted each second (abbreviated 300 bps ). Assuming asynchronous communication, which requires 10 bits per character, this translates to 30 characters per second (cps). For slow rates (below 1,200 baud), you can divide the baud by 10 to see how many characters per second are sent.
At higher speeds, it is possible to encode more than one bit in each electrical change. 4,800 baud may allow 9,600 bits to be sent each second. At high data transfer speeds, therefore, data transmission rates are usually expressed in bits per second (bps) rather than baud. For example, a 9,600 bps modem may operate at only 2,400 baud.
#25
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2006
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Apple has the best ads...Its only a matter of time before we start seeing regional FOs dancing like this at the airport...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQG2xILVeAw
-LAFF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQG2xILVeAw
-LAFF
Hard to believe this was Super Bowl Sunday 23 years ago, the day of my son's birth! What a life I've had!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
#26
Hard to believe this was Super Bowl Sunday 23 years ago, the day of my son's birth! What a life I've had!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
-LAFF
#27
Hard to believe this was Super Bowl Sunday 23 years ago, the day of my son's birth! What a life I've had!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
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