The IBM 3101 NATO round?

From: Miles O'Neal <meo_at_netads.com>
Date: Tue Jan 12 01:12:32 1999

Geoff Roberts said...
|
|>Crappy Soviet 7.62x39 military ammo.
|
|That too. :^) But a 7.62 NATO is a little shorter than the 7.62 Russian.

The 7.62 NATO is 7.62x51, the same as a .308 Winchester.
The 7.62 Russian rifle cartridge is slightly longer than
this (either 53 or 54 mm), but that's completely different
than the 7.62x38, which was developed for carbines.

|Got to Indonesia. We sold them the contents of the factory that made
|our 7.62mm NATO/.308 SLR's
|(Self Loading Rifles - Basically an FN rifle with a few refinements) You
|could probably buy one dirt cheap.

By the time I factor in the trip, that would be equivalent
to going to Alaska to bu a Sinclair ZX80.

|>But, like an IBM 3101 terminal, you can toss an SKS or AK off a roof,
|>run over it with a truck, drag it through the mud, and it will *still*
|>let you log on and do its job. Um, I mean, shoot as well as it ever
|did.
|
|This is not exactly inspiring. An AK is probably the most inaccurate
|assault rifle ever built.
|(As I'm sure you know already);^)

At 100m, it's just fine. Which is what it wa sbuilt for - short
range (I admit, the idea of running the sites on my SKS up to
the 500m setting is hysterical - I would want something like a
battleship for a backstop!

But the IBM 3101 was a beast, too. Slow. Clunkiest keyboard I
think I have ever used. As big as a Cromemco with a Televideo
950. But built like a tank.

|No experience with IBM 3101's, so I'll take your word for it. B^)

It was IBM's irst (AFAIK) attempt to enter the world of ASCII and
RS-232. It was, I suppose, successful. It was the right thing
to put on a MODCOMP, which was what we had them on - because they
would probably both survive WWW III.

|It would have to be truly awful to beat an ADM3 though. I have one of
|those.

Want to get rid of it to make space for something else? 8^)

-Miles
Received on Tue Jan 12 1999 - 01:12:32 GMT