Withdrawal symptoms, cylinder index, CPU index?

[Sam Letzring]

I think have a pretty high CPU index- I think I should get a bigger
multiplier for a CPM based diskless laptop- all programs were burned into
EEPROMS.
Another laptop is an 8086 running DOS 2.0

Another favorite is my first computer kit- a 1979 Sinclair which used a
cassette for memory.

I also have 4 Pentium 4's running- one with self installed LINUX.

Sam

86 4KCSQ
97 SUbaru OB ( down for head gasket repair)
02 VW Eurovan Camper

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Arman" <armanmik at earthlink.net>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:51 AM
Subject: Withdrawal symptoms, cylinder index, CPU index?


>
>
>
> I'm having withdrawal symptoms - Cody Forbes came and picked up my
*entire*
> collection of five cylinder Audi cars and parts (well one car is still
> here, he has to make two trips, there is just *so* much you can put on a
> trailer, into the cars and into the bed of a dually . . . )
>
> I was amazed at the quantity and quality of the stuff - NOS parts, hard to
> find stuff, all labeled, annotated and boxed, right down to what section
of
> the Bentley covers it, reconditioned subassemblies ready to be installed,
> and all of a sudden I have ROOM in my garage, side and back yards, and can
> mow, trim, and generally move stuff around now . . .
>
> I have not left the Audi fold - I still have (and am keeping) the V8 - and
> now I have room to accumulate goodies for it!!
>
> My cylinder index, however, took a hit - down 13 points (yes, I know 13
> isn't divisible by five - he also got a Subaru Justy engine which I was
> going to convert to power a generator "someday"), and that moves me from
> "master of motors" down to "dilettante", and I don't like that. Somehow I
> don't think buying a V-12 Jag to get the CI back up is going to fly . . .
> or even run, if it is a Jag . . .
>
> One item we never did resolve is the CI of a wankel engine. Is it "1", or
> is it "3" or is it "the equivalent number of cylinders in a recip engine
> which makes the same power" or something else entirely? My CI is now
> somewhere between 24 and 27, depending on how we count the rotary engine.
>
> I propose, therefore, that we create an additional index as a measure of
> geekdom - the CPU index. How many computers do we have laying around?
> Ground rules - they all have to be assembled and working, parts in a box
> don't count. There are multipliers, as well - a working Linux system which
> you installed yourself is worth "2", anything with a 486 or less is worth
> ".8", and anything that runs CPM is worth "3" and belongs in a museum.
> Hacked iOpeners that run are worth 1.5. So let's see, that puts my CPU
> index at 12.8, which makes me a candidate for propeller-head geekdom.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mike Arman
> (Audi V8 . . . it isn't just a car, it's an ADVENTURE!)
>
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