I always wondered where the bar is for Tesla membership and guestimated 6250 would make the cut. So I was right. Felt great to join the few that made it this far. There should be more tiers to motivate people.
Welcome to Tesla-ship.
liudr:
I always wondered where the bar is for Tesla membership and guestimated 6250 would make the cut. So I was right. Felt great to join the few that made it this far. There should be more tiers to motivate people.
Hmmm, 6250 has a different association for me.
I've been in this business since I graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1979. My first job was at Data General (now RIP). It was before we used these new-fangled inter-tubes to connect computers came on the scene, and instead we used magnetic tapes. In 1979, most of the computers had either 800 NRZI bpi or 1600 PE bpi tapes for data transfer, but the special computers had 6250 GCR bpi tape drives to allow you to record a whopping 140 megabytes of data (the disk drives we used typically had 128 megabytes).
Who needed that much memory? 
Sic transit gloria mundi. Hmm, I just bought a 32 gigabyte card for my camera for $27. How times have changed.
Feels great! Just keep replying to posts everyday got me here.
Hands MichaelMeissner! We are Alumni, only a couple decades apart!
Charles Campbell Professor of Physics
Mort Hamermesh Professor of Physics
James Serrin Professor of Mathmatics
John Turner Professor of Political Science
I wonder if you took any course with them. I have some old records dated 1980-81 so If you were at U of M in late 70's you might have taken their courses. I know the first two personally. Took courses from Campbell but Hamermesh retired long before I started grad school so only met him in the coffee room.
liudr:
Hands MichaelMeissner! We are Alumni, only a couple decades apart!Charles Campbell Professor of Physics
Mort Hamermesh Professor of Physics
James Serrin Professor of Mathmatics
John Turner Professor of Political ScienceI wonder if you took any course with them. I have some old records dated 1980-81 so If you were at U of M in late 70's you might have taken their courses. I know the first two personally. Took courses from Campbell but Hamermesh retired long before I started grad school so only met him in the coffee room.
At this stage, I don't remember who taught the Physics 101 course that I took as part of my computer BS degree. When I went, I could do computers as a BS (required physics) or BA (required foreign language), and my skills at foreign language are really lame (I had failed some high school french). It was one of those large courses that the Minneapolis campus had for freshmen classes.
Yep, the classroom sits 300 souls. The professor usually needs a dozen teaching assistants to do labs and recitations. I was one of those TAs. It is a miracle students can improve 20% after a semester of physics as national average