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Don’t bandy paraprosdokians with me!
Clive Maxfield
2/11/2012 3:56 PM EST
I’m on Gary Smith’s “jokes list”, which means I never know what’s going to appear in my “Inbox”…
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zeeglen
Like 'em all, learned a new word. Would you know if phrases like these have a name other than ...
Ten things I want to do before I die…
Clive Maxfield
2/8/2012 3:51 PM EST
I don’t want to sound maudlin, but every now and then as one gets older, thoughts of mortality do tend to cross one’s mind…
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jiudinghong
I often want to die? It didn't want to die before will do? First to big dinner, do a full you damn ...
Free 2-day course: Designing with SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs
Clive Maxfield
2/7/2012 12:55 PM EST
SmartFusion mixed-signal FPGAs include a hard ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller core, so this course will be of interest to a wide audience…
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How It Was: Magnetic wire recorders
Clive Maxfield
2/7/2012 9:46 AM EST
If asked about the history of sound recording, you might think of the phonograph, the gramophone, and the magnetic tape recorder, but what about the wire recorder?
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ReneCardenas
Thanks for sharing those recordings, it was awesome to see the passion on restoring those wire ...
OMG! My heart is pounding after watching these videos
Clive Maxfield
2/6/2012 1:30 PM EST
I can’t believe my heart is pounding so much when all I did was sit here and watch a video, goodness only knows what I’d be like if…
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How It Was: Fiddling and twiddling with the TV controls
Clive Maxfield
2/2/2012 11:12 AM EST
In the not-so-distant past you had to constantly fiddle and twiddle with your television's controls to keep a reasonable picture on the screen...
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Bellhop
Some stations in the US did play reruns of "The Goon Show". The humor would fly right past you and ...
The Winter 2012 issue of Xcell Journal magazine is available now
Clive Maxfield
2/1/2012 7:23 PM EST
The folks from Xilinx have just announced the immediate availability of the Winter 2012 edition of their quarterly Xcell Journal magazine
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Clive Maxfield
2/1/2012 3:42 PM EST
I’m starting to feel distinctly silly, because yet another electronics hobby project has failed to perform as expected…
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Max the Magnificent
I just tuned my old AM radio to the static between stations and... ...Elvis says (a) stop talking ...
How It Was: Seeing my first color television
Clive Maxfield
1/31/2012 1:57 PM EST
When I was a young lad, I don't think I was even aware that such a beast as a color television existed…
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OmegaMan
I remember the very first program I watched on our brand new color TV. It was "I Dream of Jeanie"... ...
Xilinx launches first 7 Series FPGA design platforms
Clive Maxfield
1/31/2012 10:59 AM EST
The first complete development kits for increasing system performance, lowering power, and reducing BoM with Xilinx 28nm FPGAs are being demonstrated at DesignCon 2012
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