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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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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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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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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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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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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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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