C. A. Sanger on sun 21 feb 99
What's the chance we might live to see a hand-held glaze calculation
device similar to those neat Texas Instrument/Casio graphing clculators?
Maybe with a tiny printout roll like some claculators? The new glaze
calculation programs are great, but you can't take a PC into the studio.
A hand-held calculator could be slipped into a Ziploc and carried in
your pocket.
C. A. Sanger
Kansas, USA
Earl Brunner on mon 22 feb 99
It sounds wonderful, but from a production standpoint, I'm not sure that the
market would be large enough to keep the production costs down enough to
make it affordable.
There has to be a large enough market share to make it cost effective.
That's the problem we have with some of our raw materials, we are at the
mercy of other larger industries. When say the glass industry or some other
primary consumer of a frit quits using it in favor of something else, or
discontinues their product all together, we lose out because potters world
wide don't consume enough of the stuff for the manufacturers to bother.
Earl Brunner
C. A. Sanger wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> What's the chance we might live to see a hand-held glaze calculation
> device similar to those neat Texas Instrument/Casio graphing clculators?
> Maybe with a tiny printout roll like some claculators? The new glaze
> calculation programs are great, but you can't take a PC into the studio.
> A hand-held calculator could be slipped into a Ziploc and carried in
> your pocket.
>
> C. A. Sanger
> Kansas, USA
John K. Dellow on mon 22 feb 99
been there done that with a Texas Instrument Programmable TI 58 in 1977.
Very slow but the best that was available then.
jacka
"C. A. Sanger" wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> What's the chance we might live to see a hand-held glaze calculation
> device similar to those neat Texas Instrument/Casio graphing clculators?
> Maybe with a tiny printout roll like some claculators? The new glaze
> calculation programs are great, but you can't take a PC into the studio.
> A hand-held calculator could be slipped into a Ziploc and carried in
> your pocket.
>
> C. A. Sanger
> Kansas, USA
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Louis Katz on tue 23 feb 99
Sure can take a computer in the classroom. We have a Mac SE for storing glaze
recipes. Soon to get a printer too!
If it breaks down by another from macresq.com or get it from some other
surplus outlet for $50.
In 1975 I wrote a glaze calculation program for the mainframe at the
University of Michigan. Cost about $0.21 to run a calculation, and you had to
submit it on punch cards.
My program was a single cell bacteria in comparison to the beautious
behemouths we have at our disposal today.
Louis
"John K. Dellow" wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> been there done that with a Texas Instrument Programmable TI 58 in 1977.
> Very slow but the best that was available then.
> jacka
>
> "C. A. Sanger" wrote:
>
> > ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> > What's the chance we might live to see a hand-held glaze calculation
> > device similar to those neat Texas Instrument/Casio graphing clculators?
> > Maybe with a tiny printout roll like some claculators? The new glaze
> > calculation programs are great, but you can't take a PC into the studio.
> > A hand-held calculator could be slipped into a Ziploc and carried in
> > your pocket.
> >
> > C. A. Sanger
> > Kansas, USA
>
> --
>
> John Dellow "the flower pot man"
> ICQ : #2193986 {jacka}
> E-mail : dellow@usa.net
> 25 Hugh Guinea Ct, Worongary Q 4213
> Ph:+61-7-55302875 Fax:+61-7-55253585
> Home Page : http://welcome.to/jkdellow
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Russel Fouts on wed 24 feb 99
Earl,
>> It sounds wonderful, but from a production standpoint, I'm not sure that
the market would be large enough to keep the production costs down enough to
make it affordable. There has to be a large enough market share to make it
cost effective. That's the problem we have with some of our raw materials,
we are at the mercy of other larger industries. When say the glass industry
or some other primary consumer of a frit quits using it in favor of
something else, or
discontinues their product all together, we lose out because potters world
wide don't consume enough of the stuff for the manufacturers to bother. >>
Not so far fetched if one of our programmer types ported it to a Psion or a
Palm Pilot or something like that. It could even be made to run on any
device that would run Windows CE for instance (If Bill has his way, you
could be running it on your kiln controller or your toaster!!).
I think there might be lots of ways to do this.
Russel
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The good fortune to run into the ones I do
And the eyesight to tell the difference.
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