• Two good resources...

    From Gene Buckle@1:138/142 to All on Tue Jan 9 08:05:47 2018
    First up is a 91 page book called "Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers" and is a great "re-introduction" for folks that have been out of the Pascal game for a while. http://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction .pdf

    The second is from Jeff Duntemann and is called "Free Pascal From Square One". This book is a "port" of his Borland Pascal 7 From Square One book and is being constantly updated - most recently as of 12Dec17. It can be downloaded here: http://www.copperwood.com/pub/FreePascalFromSquareOne.pdf

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Gene Buckle on Tue Jan 9 15:35:48 2018

    hiya gene! how goes the work on your F15 chassis cockpit simulator? :)

    On 2018 Jan 09 08:05:46, you wrote to All:

    First up is a 91 page book called "Modern Object Pascal Introduction
    for Programmers" and is a great "re-introduction" for folks that have
    been out of the Pascal game for a while. http://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.pdf

    i've been watching castle... have a few games i want to work on some time but... i'm not sure but i think their tech will help me get at least one or two
    of them done if i can find more time...

    The second is from Jeff Duntemann and is called "Free Pascal From
    Square One". This book is a "port" of his Borland Pascal 7 From Square
    One book and is being constantly updated - most recently as of
    12Dec17. It can be downloaded here: http://www.copperwood.com/pub/FreePascalFromSquareOne.pdf

    i still have (and occasionally pull out) another of duntemann's older books... that one plus swan's 4th edition of "Mastering Turbo Pascal 6" helped me years ago...

    we'll see ya around flightgear some time, eh? ;)

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Gene Buckle on Wed Jan 10 08:50:00 2018
    Gene Buckle wrote to All <=-

    First up is a 91 page book called "Modern Object Pascal Introduction
    for Programmers" and is a great "re-introduction" for folks that have

    Thanks, I've grabbed both of those for future reference. :)


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  • From Gene Buckle@1:138/142 to mark lewis on Tue Jan 9 14:15:26 2018
    Re: Two good resources...
    By: mark lewis to Gene Buckle on Tue Jan 09 2018 03:35 pm

    hiya gene! how goes the work on your F15 chassis cockpit simulator? :)

    It goes. I had a spare few minutes and cleaned up one of the rotary selector switches for the APG-70(V) radar panel the other day. :) Still lots and lots to do. The next mini-project is an automatic wire cutter.

    Here's another resource for folks - it's the spiritual successor to the SWAG archive: http://www.delphidabbler.com/software/codesnip?mid=2

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Gene Buckle on Tue Jan 9 20:17:06 2018

    On 2018 Jan 09 14:15:26, you wrote to me:

    hiya gene! how goes the work on your F15 chassis cockpit simulator?
    :)

    It goes. I had a spare few minutes and cleaned up one of the rotary selector switches for the APG-70(V) radar panel the other day. :)
    Still lots and lots to do.

    i can only imagine... you definitely have a project there :)

    The next mini-project is an automatic wire cutter.

    to be able to cut bundles of wires all the same length?

    Here's another resource for folks - it's the spiritual successor to
    the SWAG archive: http://www.delphidabbler.com/software/codesnip?mid=2

    ahhhh... another good one :)

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  • From Gene Buckle@1:138/142 to mark lewis on Thu Jan 11 07:56:32 2018
    Re: Two good resources...
    By: mark lewis to Gene Buckle on Tue Jan 09 2018 08:17 pm

    The next mini-project is an automatic wire cutter.

    to be able to cut bundles of wires all the same length?
    Yes. For example, the right side console uses most of a 125 pin cannon plug. That runs foreward to a bulkhead mounting point. In order to break that out, I've got to measure and cut a LOT of wire. It's a lot easier if I make an Arduino do it. (That and I can't aford the ~$1500 for the "real" machine that does that cutting/stripping task.)

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Gene Buckle on Fri Jan 12 05:30:52 2018

    On 2018 Jan 11 07:56:32, you wrote to me:

    The next mini-project is an automatic wire cutter.

    to be able to cut bundles of wires all the same length?

    Yes. For example, the right side console uses most of a 125 pin
    cannon plug. That runs foreward to a bulkhead mounting point. In
    order to break that out, I've got to measure and cut a LOT of wire.
    It's a lot easier if I make an Arduino do it. (That and I can't aford
    the ~$1500 for the "real" machine that does that cutting/stripping
    task.)

    i hear ya! i can't imagine doing 125 wires in one plug but i have sat for days doing 25pin serial cables... the client didn't want to spring for premade ones cut to individual lengths so we sold them a spool of 25 conductor cable and let
    their guys run it from the office to the individual machines... then i went in and put pins and hoods on each end... this was for injection moulding machines and they didn't want to roll the computer out to each one any more to load their programs... when it was all said and done, they three or four 5-way serial switches to select which machine they were programming and then they ran
    their program to load the code into it...

    while i still have my pin crimpers (and the above job more than paid for them) i don't do serial/parallel cable maint any more...

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