Re: TI-H: random email

To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: TI-H: random email
From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 21:37:54 -0700
Reply-To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org


I do!!  I alaways save time to skateboard or snowboard with the other guys!

Btw, is anyone in here considered a "G"?  Oh, and no wrong interpertations.
People on the east side will think I mean gay.  I mean ya know, gangsters.
At our school everyone is too preppy to be a gangster, so me and the rest
are just skaters...

>If anyone on this list does have a life, tell us where you got it :-))
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
>To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date: Sunday, March 01, 1998 7:11 PM
>Subject: Re: TI-H: random email
>
>
>>
>>>In a message dated 98-03-01 15:20:20 EST, you write:
>>>
>>><< It is interesting to note that a 30-06 rifle bullet travels at 2800
>>> ft/sec. which means that it takes 3.5E-4 seconds to travel one foot. The
>>> minimum number of Mhz required for a CPU to go faster than a speeding
>>> bullet would be (1 insturction)/(3.5E-4 sec.) or 2857 insturctions per
>>> second. Asuming a 32 bit instruction that means that a minimum of .92Mhz
>>> (thats right .92 not 92) to go faster than a speeding bullet. All of
>>> this to say Big Deal our clacs can alrredy do that. Assuming 6Mhz and an
>>> 8 bit instucrtion the calc can preform 262 caculations in the time it
>>> takes a speeding bullet to travel one foot. If it were a 32bit machine
>>> it could do 66 calculations in that same amount of time.
>>>
>>> -mj <matt.johnson@wmich.edu>
>>>  >>
>>>Ummm....pardon me for asking, but do you have any social life at all?
>>
>>Do any of us?  :)
>>
>>
>>

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From: jdaomteys@juno.com (James Doty)