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  1. What did a 1403 cost? on How the IBM 1403 Printer Hammered Out 1,100 Lines Per Minute (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Informative
    $25,000 for one printer. Or, as we said in those days. Five Cadillacs.

    Authority? I overheard it in our raised floor, freezing cold, glass windows in walls computer room.

  2. Remind me again on Sexism Still a Problem At E3 · · Score: 1

    Remind me again... What's evil about using sex to sell your product? Oh yeah... How about the names of the companies - percentage would do - of the companies in the Fortune 500 that do NOT use sex to sell. Just wondering...

  3. Wrong forum - ask a choir director on Ask Slashdot: How Can a Blind Singer 'See' the Choirmaster's Baton? · · Score: 2

    Ask someone who's encountered the problem and seen it solved... Like a choir director or one of the many organizations of choir and choral directors. Here's one. http://www.chorusamerica.org/ Part of the purpose of such organizations is to share information about what works for common and uncommon situations.

  4. News at 11: People can be tricked... on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 1

    Don't see a big story here.

    Use something as reliable as printed words on paper.
    Make words change by a trick - unexpected and hard to detect...

    And you expect people to act consistently?
    I expect them to be tricked.

  5. Stuff that matters...? on Mark Cuban Blames Himself For Losing Money On Facebook IPO · · Score: 0

    Why is this on /.? News for Nerds, stuff that matters... No sign of that here...

  6. Shortcuts To A... on Ask Slashdot: Shortcuts To a High Tech House · · Score: 1

    C'mon. Do you think /. can read your mind? ...need to have some kind of idea about... What's the budget? Does high-tech mean "off the grid"? Does high-tech world's glitziest kitchen? Bathroom? Lighting? and on and on...

  7. Re:Can you go paperless? on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 1

    IRS has accepted scanned receipts since 1997. See http://www.entrepreneur.com/answer/222221 for the code citation. On paper means a document is authentic? Not for a long time.

  8. I saw it on Mid-Atlantic Commercial Spaceport Makes First Launch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I made an early morning trip to a local laudromat in Bowie, Maryland. I normally get there a little before 7:00 A.M. EST. Sunrise happens now around 7:10 A.M. It's a pleasure to see the sky and clouds change color and appearance as sunrise nears.

    As I watched today, I said, "What's that?". To the east a thin bright white contrail grew longer and longer. What's that? I had no idea. Something "shiny" was drawing a line on the sky. The contrail quickly went from a line to jaggy. My guess - Something must be traveling vertical, going through different wind layers.

    Acceleration was easily visible - not at all like a cruising plane. It changed course from what may have been nearly vertical to something much closer to horizontal. At times, a long "wake" was visible - a bright line vee from the base of the "shiny thing".

    I had no idea what I was looking at. Now I do.
    Shiny? The rocket exhaust flame? The distance from Bowie to Wallops is on the order of 100 miles, I can't have been seeing the rocket itself.

    It might be decade or so since that last time I've seen a "not looking for it" launch display from the Wallops area.