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    Sir Maurice Wilkes

    I have just read his obituary (in print,) he was 97, as would my dad have been. Scientist who built the first practical digital computer Anyone here heard of the first business computer? LEO? Or remember eating in a Lyons tea-shop Francis www.controldraw.co.uk www.s88control.blogspot.com
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    Attribute Tag and Values

    I have been using a program (DWG Miner from Skysof) that can read the attributes tags and values from DWG files. In this case Piping and Instrument diagrams. What I have found is that there seem to be additional attributes that are not visible on the diagrams, and some of which have negative X...
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    Bird flu vaccine production

    There is an interesting point made in the observer today about the productive capacity of pharmaceutical plants. Quote "There is a terrible irony in the fact that the growth in scientific research and technology now means we can engineer a vaccine against a new strain within weeks, and yet it...
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    Theft detection by phone

    I have thought of putting a vibration detector and sim card in a bike so that it will text you when it gets stolen. Anyone heard of such an idea?

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