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mwarrenus commented 4 months ago
Wierd military computer boards
What did these come from?
High-res pics at http://www.electricstuff.co...
DEC internal article:
Sun. Apr. 29, 1991 at Discovery Mission Time 0 days, 04:11:55 the 1st VAX in space booted VMS. Controllers at Goddard Center report all sensors are nominal and the verification phase is proceeding normally.
Militarized VAX 6210 by Raytheon. R/W optical disk boot device by ...
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mwarrenus commented 8 months ago
How the M16 Works, part 2
Everything you ever wanted to know about how the M16 works
@GoldenRing1989 5:45 into the film the narrator explains: "When the bolt carrier enters the last 1/2-inch of its forward movement, the bolt cam pin emerges from the guide channel in the upper receiver and moves along the cam track rotating the bolt counter-clockwise. This locks the bolt to the ba...
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mwarrenus commented 8 months ago
How the M16 Works, part 2
Everything you ever wanted to know about how the M16 works
@jericoferrari55 @9:41 shows MCMLXVI - 1966. Archive.org on US Army film TF9-3663 "Rifle 5.56mm, XM16E1, Operation and Cycle of Functioning": 1st mass-fielded version of the M16 rifle. This version has a chrome-plated bolt carrier, no trap door in the buttstock, no forward assist, non-chrome-lin...
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Amazon Silk—Amazon's Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser
The web browser on Kindle Fire introduces a radical new paradigm -- a "split browser" architecture that accelerates the power of the mobile device ...
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mwarrenus said:
In 1994, Professor Eric Brewer and Armando Fox's research at UC Berkeley developed this "split browser" architecture and Proxinet, Inc was founded to deploy it commercially. One client on the Palm Pilot was "Top Gun Wingman". Amazon's "split-browser" technology might be new within Amazon, but o...