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The Groom Lake Desert Rat: Issue 25

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· 12 Feb 2024

Issue #25. April 15, 1995 In this issue... Freedom Ridge Closed Fundamentals of Democracy Area 51--The Movie Tikaboo Hike May 13 Intel Bitty Kitties End Of An Era The Freedom Ridge and White Sides viewpoints have finally been closed by the Air Force, ending th ...

Issue # 38 DTACK GROUNDED Newsletter - January 1985

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· 7 May 2023

... h. While I know and respect your feelings about HLLs and Mack, hopefully MackFORTRAN, which is written in 68000 assembly language, will be faster than Mackintosh Microsoft BASIC (619 sec) or MackPASCAL (328 sec) for Terry P.'s benchmark in issue #25. As a scientist, FORTRAN does come in handy. "More interesting, however, was the discussion I had with an ABSOFT representative when I ordered MackFORTRAN. The representative asked if I would be interested in a hardware floating point accelerator for ...

Issue # 31 DTACK GROUNDED Newsletter - May 1984

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· 6 May 2023

... . The fading dour pessimist suggested using the same clock as the 68000, only divided in half. The system then worked 10,000 times out of 10,000 tries. A second, somewhat improved prototype was constructed, and is pictured on the front of newsletter #25. The two project engineers continued to learn more about the exact way the interface worked and which parameters were critical, but every attempt to use an asynchronous clock for the 16081 worked - 9,999 times out of 10,000. The newsletter editor rep ...