Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s

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From: Mike Spencer
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:25

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JimP <solo...@gmail.com> writes:

> On 05 Aug 2018 18:18:49 -0300, Mike Spencer
> <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>>
>> ObComputers [sort of]:
>>
>>    Did you know that the Maunder Minimum matches the period covered
>>    by The Baroque Cycle almost exactly?
> 
> No, I didn't. Fascinating !

That was 70 years during which the Enlightenment arguably took place.

<CRACKPOTTERY>

The "quiet sun" minima of the 11 year solar cycle are much shorter but
hey, we have statistics and Big Data now!  Can we look for ca. 5 year
cyclic episodes of increased intellectual acumen, decreased
susceptibility to magical dogma & authoritarian thinking and so on?

It's not the  stars, it's the sunspots!

</CRACKPOTTERY>

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
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