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SiliconWizard:

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--- Quote from: Neilm on July 12, 2021, 06:08:30 pm ---You realise that the space shuttle last launched 10 years ago (last landing 21st)

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I'm not old. If Soyuz is still the most advanced way for people to get into orbit, surely it can't be long since I was a kid and heard about the launch of the first one.

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Probably because under the same name, it has known a number of versions. The first version was designed in the 50's.
The Soyuz-2 that is currently being used is significantly more modern. (First launch of series -2 was in 2011.)
Gregg:
I remember as a kid being totally fascinated by a store that had a set of miniature aerial cable trams that were used to send a customer’s money from the clerk on the main floor up to the cashiers located on the mezzanine.
To purchase something, a clerk would write up an invoice, place the invoice and the customers hard currency (either bills or coins; none of that plastic rubbish) on the tram which had a clip for the paper and a basket for the coins; pull a cord which would lift the tram up to the constantly running cable somehow engage the cable and send it to the mezzanine.
The cashier on the mezzanine would write out a receipt and return it with the customer’s change to the clerk below who in the meantime would retrieve the purchased item and wrap it in brown paper tied with a string.
The store was what they used to call a dry goods store and was definitely not self-serve.  I’m not sure the reasoning behind such an elaborate system.  Maybe it was that they didn’t want the floor clerks to handle more money than a single transaction or maybe it was because cash registers were very expensive. 
I have tried to find a picture of this system on the internet but so far my google-fu has failed me.  This possibly was a predecessor to the pneumatic tube system of money handling that some other stores used at the time.
Sal Ammoniac:
The local Monkey Wards (Montgomery Wards) store had a similar system that used pneumatic tubes to send orders and payments to different parts of the store.
TimFox:
So did an old-line department store downtown when I was a kid:  no cash registers on the sales floor, just pneumatic tube stations.  The sound was fascinating to a child.
Paris had a famous municipal system, which you can find about on Google, that was a stylish route to send love letters between residential addresses.
There was also a system in the New York City subway tunnels (don't know if it is still in use) to send stuff between banks.  When they started sending magnetic media, it was the fastest route (in MBytes/sec) in practical use.
When I was just chatting with co-workers about hobbies, and mentioned that I was doing stuff with vacuum tubes, a lady in accounting said that they used to have them where she worked before, but she really meant pneumatic tubes.
rfclown:

--- Quote from: Quarlo Klobrigney on June 22, 2021, 09:29:34 am ---Conelrad had nothing on this setup.
I remember listening to WGU20 from Maryland on Longwave at 179 kHz, quite strong in Massachusetts during the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGU-20

As we were all expected to survive a nuclear blast and come out of our shelters, then listen to the government to tell us how long it would be before it was safe (and the final score). :palm:

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In elementary school we had fire drills (you go outside), tornado drills (you go out in the hallway away from windows), and disaster drills (you get under your desk and curl up with you head tucked between your knees). I don't know who decided that getting under the desk would help with a nuclear blast. Maybe the curling up was telling you to kiss your butt goodbye.
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