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      05-07-2021, 05:58 AM   #23
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Lol. If you were truly using something that looks like this computer from the 70s I would be seriously impressed. Actually I'm impressed no matter what because I don't know jack about Keplerian elements.
Wasn’t the Wang a word processor? I’m thinking PDP-11
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A while back they did their "Star Wars" program test by hitting a satellite in orbit with a missile. The result of the test was a whole lot of space debris which now needs to be tracked. They were warned not to do it, but did anyway.
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Y'all underestimating china. That shits going back home to land on its pad like spacex.
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Lol. If you were truly using something that looks like this computer from the 70s I would be seriously impressed.
It was an early homebrew S-100 bus computer with an 8080 CPU, sorta like this:



...with the cat's meow of a TI Silent 700 terminal as the user interface:



Notice the lack of a screen. All output was on rolls of thermal paper, similar to what the early fax machines used when they came out 10 years later.

I was being forced to track about two dozen low-medium orbit American and Soviet satellites, a few with some extremely elliptical "Tundra" like orbits like Sirius used with their first-generation birds many years later. Keplerian elements were broadcast daily by voice on HF radio, and I had to spend an hour or so writing them on paper and then keying them into the computer to run the next day's above-horizon orbital passes and print them.

Kids these days will never know the pain, since they can download a free smartphone app, point their phone at the sky, and it will show them live what satellites are overhead and in the camera's field of view.....
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Y'all underestimating china. That shits going back home to land on its pad like spacex.
At least one of China's launch sites is located inland, and they have no reservations about dropping spent boosters on their own people:

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Notice the lack of a screen. All output was on rolls of thermal paper, similar to what the early fax machines used when they came out 10 years later......
Somewhere out there is some dude who still has his 1970s computer generated thermal paper porn stashed away.
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It was an early homebrew S-100 bus computer with an 8080 CPU, sorta like this:



...with the cat's meow of a TI Silent 700 terminal as the user interface:



Notice the lack of a screen. All output was on rolls of thermal paper, similar to what the early fax machines used when they came out 10 years later.

I was being forced to track about two dozen low-medium orbit American and Soviet satellites, a few with some extremely elliptical "Tundra" like orbits like Sirius used with their first-generation birds many years later. Keplerian elements were broadcast daily by voice on HF radio, and I had to spend an hour or so writing them on paper and then keying them into the computer to run the next day's above-horizon orbital passes and print them.

Kids these days will never know the pain, since they can download a free smartphone app, point their phone at the sky, and it will show them live what satellites are overhead and in the camera's field of view.....
I had an HP-85 (I think) which had a small CRT and thermal paper output. I don’t recall what the storage was. BASIC language. I wrote a lot of code on that, mainly for stock market and options trading, but also some simple games for my infant son. Around 1982 IIRC.

Wrote my college thesis (Economics) on a PDP-11 with a 300 baud dial up modem and a dumb terminal in my apartment. All caps on the terminal, so I had to go to the computer lab and edit. Good times.

Relevance to thread: I wrote a rocket launch game, and one for aiming a projectile (mortar).
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Somewhere out there is some dude who still has his 1970s computer generated thermal paper porn stashed away.
...or other fine ASCII art printed in "HD" on wide fan-folded green bar tractor-feed paper.....




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In case anyone is still playing China Booster Crash Bingo at home, the latest guess from EU SST is for a re-entry at 2021-05-09 02:11 UTC ±190 minutes. This is 10:11 PM EDT tonight for the east coast of the US.

https://www.eusst.eu/newsroom/eu-sst...cz5brb/#Tianhe

Looking at their orbit projections, my Atlantic Ocean Maidenhead grid box from an earlier post is real possibility if it comes down a few minutes early:

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Just China returning the cash for clunkers trash it was made from ...
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If it holds on for another two orbits per the above map, it could possibly crash on Hackensack, NJ!!!!!



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Hasn't made re-entry yet, right?
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If it holds on for another two orbits per the above map, it could possibly crash on Hackensack, NJ!!!!!



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If that happens, lex luther definitely had his hands in the mix
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