Re: Cool Picture Thread
Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 7:43 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:21 pm
That's some damned clever and quick thinking.
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 5:32 am
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:49 pm
It's on a studio lot in LA. It's not, as is commonly believed, in central park in New York. The fountain they try and tell you is the "Friends" one in the park is nothing like the one in the show.
Re: Cool Picture Thread
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:14 pm
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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 12:41 am
Screenshot of the YF-19 (back) and YF-21 (front) from Macross Plus.
Re: Cool Picture Thread
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2021 3:30 pm
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:05 pm
We had some "programmable calculators" that looked exactly like the right hand end of that gadget. You could program them using a form of the BASIC computer language. I wrote a blood pressure averaging system on them that was used in our of our trials. It not only averaged the readings it worked out a CV for the mean and would request new readings until they all fell within 5% of each other. Usually it would only take 3 readings but if the patient was too 'excited' when the started taking readings then it would go on a while as they relaxed.
All the nurse had to do is turn the machine on and follow the instructions on screen.
All the nurse had to do is turn the machine on and follow the instructions on screen.
Re: Cool Picture Thread
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:02 pm
IanKennedy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 08, 2021 8:05 pm We had some "programmable calculators" that looked exactly like the right hand end of that gadget. You could program them using a form of the BASIC computer language. I wrote a blood pressure averaging system on them that was used in our of our trials. It not only averaged the readings it worked out a CV for the mean and would request new readings until they all fell within 5% of each other. Usually it would only take 3 readings but if the patient was too 'excited' when the started taking readings then it would go on a while as they relaxed.
All the nurse had to do is turn the machine on and follow the instructions on screen.
Okay, that is legit highly cool.
Re: Cool Picture Thread
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 5:05 am
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:06 pm
I had one of these as my university calculator:
This is likely what that guy is holding, if not that a later model:
This is likely what that guy is holding, if not that a later model:
Re: Cool Picture Thread
Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:13 pm
About a decade later we used these:
Which ran CP/M a predecessor to MS/DOS and Unix that you could program using Turbo Pascal. We built an "Expert System" as they used to be called, which would take information about meals, hypos, glucose levels and other factors and recommend what insulin doses people with type 2 diabetes should take, on a injection by injection basis. "Expert systems" where the precursor to the AI systems we have today, except they didn't work on Neural networks as most do today.
To give you a sense of scale that device was about 8.4" tall by 3.7" wide. It was over 1.5" thick, weighing in at 1.36 lbs.
Which ran CP/M a predecessor to MS/DOS and Unix that you could program using Turbo Pascal. We built an "Expert System" as they used to be called, which would take information about meals, hypos, glucose levels and other factors and recommend what insulin doses people with type 2 diabetes should take, on a injection by injection basis. "Expert systems" where the precursor to the AI systems we have today, except they didn't work on Neural networks as most do today.
To give you a sense of scale that device was about 8.4" tall by 3.7" wide. It was over 1.5" thick, weighing in at 1.36 lbs.
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