Re: TI-H: Custom Cases and muzzle energies
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Re: TI-H: Custom Cases and muzzle energies
Why not add a place to plug in an AC adapter?
--JdAoMtEyS
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"Oh my god, they killed Kenny!"
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 21:26:07 +0100 (MET) gormbr@online.no (Probe Doggie)
writes:
>
>> If anyone will find a good deal (before I do, but I have almost
>NO
>>free time) on a plasic injection-molding machine, I will definately
>buy
>>it. I've already started designing the new case.
>>
>> -Robert Brack
>> reb@netride.com
>
>with a couple of modifications, the casio GFX whatever case would be
>pretty
>good. It is far more durable than the (admittedly) flimsy-looking TI86
>or
>TI83 case and it is also a lot deeper, thusly leaving room for more
>cruical
>junx.
>
>How about somewhere convenient to fit overclock / backlighting
>switches?
>Going really overboard you could shove a Metal Hydride recharging
>mechanism
>in there...
>
>As for shoving batteries in cylindrical thingies, why? I´d be all
>nasty to
>pull out of the bottom of your bag.
>
>>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?
>
>Did you know that the muzzle energy of an M2 is 13,850 joules for a
>.50
>(12.7mm) round? This means that, on impact, it exerts a pressure equal
>to
>about 220 newtons per square MILLIMETRE??? (approx. 22 kilos.)
>
>Now imagine what it would do to a spanking new TI-86, all shiny and
>nice
>cos it just came out of it´s little styrofoam (or whatever) packaging
>junx.
>
>Oh, in addition to pure kinetic damage, the M2s .50 rounds explode on
>impact.
>
>Do you consider not having a social life a handicap when you´re on a
>TI
>mailing list?
>
>Probe Doggie
>
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