Posted on 12/28/2020 3:57:12 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
INDIAN naval ships have conducted "passage exercise" manoeuvres with their Vietnamese counterparts in the South China Sea causing Beijing to label New Delhi as "meddling" in disputed territory.
The joint exercises in the South China Sea were part of both nation's efforts to boost their combined maritime cooperation to contain China's expansionist plans for the region. India sent its naval ship INS Kiltan to the South China Sea. The Indian Navy tweeted: "INS Kiltan arrives at Ho Chi Minh City to deliver Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Stores for the flood-affected people of Central Vietnam."
Part of the ship's mission was to deliver food aid to the flood-affected people in central Vietnam.
The Indian ship docked at Nha Rhang port of Ho Chi Minh City last Thursday with 15 tonnes of food relief for the people of flood-stricken central Vietnam.
However, the ship also participated in the maritime exercises with Vietnam on Saturday on its return journey.
On Sunday the Indian Navy tweeted: "Passage exercise PASSEX (carried out) between Indian Navy and Vietnam People's Navy Navy on December 26, 2020.
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I miss the old vacuum-self-threading tape drives. Loved hearing them when I’d go into the computer room at the bank.
The vacuum will pull the tape down one column, across to the other and then spool on the take-up reel.
And then their was the filtered air, which was great during allergy season.
I miss the old vacuum-self-threading tape drives. Loved hearing them when I’d go into the computer room at the bank.
The vacuum will pull the tape down one column, across to the other and then spool on the take-up reel.
And then their was the filtered air, which was great during allergy season.
[Part of the ship’s mission was to deliver food aid to the flood-affected people in central Vietnam.]
Oh my, China. How AWFUL!!! /s
Darn meddling!
India holds the trump cards. It can very easily cut off China’s oil. This is why China is trying to get pipelines from Iran. Still even then in a real war China’s oil supplies could be easily interdicted. It isn’t hard to blow pipelines or sink oil tankers.
I think the fed govt still uses them. At least it still did in the DoD in the 2010s.
The Chinese used to claim the waters around the disputed rocks they consider their territory. Now it’s an entire sea. Eventually, it will be every ocean on Earth. Followed by all the land. Meanwhile a spokesman for Indonesia said (in effect) to Uncle Sam re China - “let’s you and him fight; just leave us out of it”.
In September, Indonesia’s foreign minister Retno Marsudi said: “ASEAN, Indonesia, wants to show to all that we are ready to be a partner.
“We don’t want to get trapped by this rivalry.”]
I think we had the 3420 machines. If memory serves.
It was fun watching them load.
We had 3340 (not sure if we ever got 3350’s maybe an upgrade later). We definitely got the 3380. Ooh, 1 gig (DASD references in this paragraph).
Back in my 3083 days.
Yes, they made an indescribable sound. Beautiful technology, completely visible and easy to understand. As one of my professors once said "slow enough to seem incredibly fast."
Such good times. Especially when they accidentally broke a water main to the building.
The 370-158 memory melted (or fried something major). It was down for a long time, while they were trying to get it fixed.
The 3083 shut down on the overtemp immediately. It was up and going once the cooling systems were active again.
[And then THERE was the filtered air, which was great during allergy season.]
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
(I think that’s how you spell it)
I turned on the 370 several times. I was impressed by the multi-step power sequencing. The university at which I worked paid $29K/month for it. It had one-half megabyte of core memory, which was expanded in (somewhere around) 1972 with an additional one megabyte of semiconductor memory; the memory units bore a logo that read “CMM,” but I can’t remember what it stood for. I thought it was Cambridge Memory something-or-other, but I can’t find any reference to such a company using Google.
Sounds possible.
I was there when the 3083 had its memory doubled.
I heard the bill from IBM was $250,000.
I know that I made recommendations to upgrade the System 36 in another department. My recommendations were about $40,000.
When it was over, they spent $200,000.
But they still didn’t purchase the compiler for months. Going month-to-month lease. An outright purchase would have saved thousands of dollars.
No idea what Indonesia’s navy looks like, but i suspect it would be a npc in any hostilities. One of the little guys seeking not to be trampled by elephants.
Yes starting up a 360 with a card deck was fun. I enjoyed going to the Computer history museum in Mountain View CA. I pointed out to my daughter all the equipment I worked on.
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