On Friday 15 April 2005 5:48 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
Peter B Van Campen wrote:
On Friday 15 April 2005 3:11 pm, Sid Boyce wrote:
Susemail wrote:
On Thursday 14 April 2005 16:06, Sid Boyce wrote:
Susemail wrote:
On Thursday 14 April 2005 04:02, James Knott wrote: >Randall R Schulz wrote:
Dear Sid.
We Natives of Illinois like to call our state "The Silicon Prairie". Lots and lots of very cool and innovative stuff has come from Illinois. Schockley, Bratton and Bardeen made the first transistor here as well. Ever seen pictures of that first junction? UGLY!!
PeterB
Ex-IBMer and Keen Bonanza (A36) co-pilot :o)
It's not been apparent, we often think of the Silicon Valley, Ca. and there are visible signs everyhere, then again around that part of the world I've only driven from Chicago airport down to Battavia and never saw a Tech company other than ours. Nice looking aircraft the Bonanza, only flew C150/152's, PA28 Warriors and the Diamond Katana DV20. Regards Hi Sid.
You should fly over FermiLab. ( in Batavia, IL) The 'ring' is so awesome that it is a reporting point for pilots navigating the Greater Chicago area. DuPage county airport is just NE of the ring, and a busy General Aviation hub. University of Illinois main campus (in the twin cities of Champaign-Urbana) is 100 of so miles S of Chicago and has its own airport for its aviation program. I have had a few visits to the Computer Sciences areas there. Who sez there are no "Hallowed shrines of science" in the Mid-West? The home of the Mosaic browser. I have flown Grumman Tigers and Cheatahs, Rockwell 112c, Mooney 201M, a vintage Navion(sweet feeling ship!) and the Bonanza. There were a scant few hours in the 'engineers seats' in a C-47/DC-3 and a Spanish built Junkers JU-52 Tri-motor. I would like to try the Diamond. We had an invite to go fly the Cirrus in Duluth MN on Lake Superior, but never got to go; drat! PeterB Last IBM mainframe worked on 4381s and 3090s. Last IBM OS ESA/MVS and VM-XA p.s. the Junkers flyes just as fast (or slow) on 2 engines as on 3 ! There are visual sight-glasses (float-glasses) for the oil and fuel tanks on the JU! There is also an under floor compartment for the 'engineer' to pump oil out to any of the engines in flight! -- -- Proud SUSE user since 5.2 Loving SUSE 9.2 My BLOG == http://vancampen.org/blog --