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<p>[QUOTE="quick dog, post: 91930, member: 4093"]Does anyone know if the underground workings are flooded? Unless someone is paying through the nose to dewater the mine, I am sure that it is filling up with ground water. I was underground in the late 1960s when they still operated trains. It was an "E" ride, better than anything at Disneyland. The elevator (man-skip) fell in free-fall during the middle part of the descent to the 4,500-foot main working level. In those days they were mining at 6,000 feet. I believe they eventually drove exploration sgafts to 12,000 feet, but I am not sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>South Dakota School of Mines ran a physics experiment station at the lower levels for many years. They were detecting bizarre atomic particles (radiation) in big tanks of water. I believe that certain types of (cosmic) radiation pass through the earth. The physics experiments were designed to detect and document sub-atomic particles. I am sure that this stuff is old-hat now days.</p><p><br /></p><p>In those days we were all doing real engineering problems and research on an IBM 1130 computer. It had a wopping 64K memory. The cpu and peripherals filled an air-conditioned room. There were paper tape drives, banks of wide magnetic spools, card readers, and three-foot-high stacks of striped (18"x11"?) connected and folded computer sheets!</p><p><br /></p><p>Only the computer technicians were allowed in the computer room. Card-punch operators punched your cards (program deck) from hand-written programming sheets given to them by the users (us). If you had a comma out of place, or a single character was missing from a thousand command program, the computer would "dump" your file. When was the last time anyone ever saw a "computer dump". It was brutal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now pale and plump little computer geeks think they are fabulous computer wizards when they manipulate extremely powerful programs (mostly games) that were written by dozens of proficient programmers, over a period of years. The geeks manipulate extraordinarily powerful computers that even Einstein probably never imagined. Monkeys on typewriters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometimes I feel like a blacksmith telling NASA about making wagon wheels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="quick dog, post: 91930, member: 4093"]Does anyone know if the underground workings are flooded? Unless someone is paying through the nose to dewater the mine, I am sure that it is filling up with ground water. I was underground in the late 1960s when they still operated trains. It was an "E" ride, better than anything at Disneyland. The elevator (man-skip) fell in free-fall during the middle part of the descent to the 4,500-foot main working level. In those days they were mining at 6,000 feet. I believe they eventually drove exploration sgafts to 12,000 feet, but I am not sure. South Dakota School of Mines ran a physics experiment station at the lower levels for many years. They were detecting bizarre atomic particles (radiation) in big tanks of water. I believe that certain types of (cosmic) radiation pass through the earth. The physics experiments were designed to detect and document sub-atomic particles. I am sure that this stuff is old-hat now days. In those days we were all doing real engineering problems and research on an IBM 1130 computer. It had a wopping 64K memory. The cpu and peripherals filled an air-conditioned room. There were paper tape drives, banks of wide magnetic spools, card readers, and three-foot-high stacks of striped (18"x11"?) connected and folded computer sheets! Only the computer technicians were allowed in the computer room. Card-punch operators punched your cards (program deck) from hand-written programming sheets given to them by the users (us). If you had a comma out of place, or a single character was missing from a thousand command program, the computer would "dump" your file. When was the last time anyone ever saw a "computer dump". It was brutal. Now pale and plump little computer geeks think they are fabulous computer wizards when they manipulate extremely powerful programs (mostly games) that were written by dozens of proficient programmers, over a period of years. The geeks manipulate extraordinarily powerful computers that even Einstein probably never imagined. Monkeys on typewriters. Sometimes I feel like a blacksmith telling NASA about making wagon wheels.[/QUOTE]
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