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Comment on: Blog Post 'THE SPiRALogic of a SYSTEMS MINDSET': aircraft and ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of World War II. Following on from Dr. Bush’s idea of a ”MEMEX” in 1945 • Doug Engelbart, who was best known as the inventor of the mouse, but also came up with the idea of screens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document • IT WAS of course Apple Computers that put together the very first practical and demonstrable version of Bush's ”MEMEX”; developments of which Tim Berners Lee was able to avail himself, to create the Hyper Text Transmission Protocol [http://], the World Wide Web [www] and the concept of a Browser, which became Netscape, to establish THE new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. …; Added by Michael Grove at 11:53 on May 22, 2021

Comment on: Blog Post 'THE SPiRALogic of a SYSTEMS MINDSET': ection of aircraft and ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of World War II. Following on from Dr. Bush’s IDEA of a ”MEMEX” in 1945 • Doug Engelbart, who was best known as the inventor of the mouse, but also came up with the idea of screens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document • IT WAS of course Apple Computers that put together the very first practical and demonstrable version of Bush's ”MEMEX”; developments of which Tim Berners Lee was able to avail himself, to create the Hyper Text Transmission Protocol [http://], the World Wide Web [www] and the concept of a Browser, which became Netscape, to establish THE new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. …; Added by Michael Grove at 12:01 on May 22, 2021

Comment on: Blog Post '[IT] WAS EMBLEMATIC ...': dation to invite "Winnie" and his T.E.A.M. to the USA • that inevitably led to the defeat of Germany and Japan • following the disaster that was Pearl Harbour and thereafter nobly extended to include Eisenhower as a result of their mutual LOVE of ART.…; Added by Michael Grove at 9:57 on December 27, 2019

Comment on: Blog Post 'THERE [IS] NO DOUBT FROM MY OWN PARTICULARLY ...': technologies for the detection of aircraft and ships • capabilities that were sorely lacking in 1940 • in conjunction with the British and their 10cm cavity magnetron, by means of the basic structure of a program that would develop the radar technology that subsequently had a decisive role in the Allied victory of World War II. Following on from Dr. Bush’s idea of a ”MEMEX” in 1945 • Doug Engelbart, who was best known as the inventor of the mouse, but also came up with the idea of screens, and windows, and "hypertext", clickable links in text that could take you from document to document • IT WAS of course Apple Computers that put together the very first practical and demonstrable version of Bush's ”MEMEX”; developments of which Tim Berners Lee was able to avail himself, to create the Hyper Text Transmission Protocol [http://], the World Wide Web [www] and the concept of a Browser, which became Netscape, to establish THE new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge . . …; Added by Michael Grove at 9:30 on September 17, 2021

Comment on: Video 'Atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (real footage)': here, rather than [IT]'s use for the development of the world's first Airborne Radar, utilising the Magnatron Technology which Churchill & co brought with them, to their meeting with President Roosevelt, which had been brokered by Vannevar Bush…; Added by Michael Grove at 9:32 on October 28, 2022

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Comment on: Blog Post 'CHAOTIC JET STREAM ACTIVITY ...': raphy, geography, hydrology, geology and glaciology, plant ecology and vegetation history — to mention only some — has made it impossible to work... with common and well established definitions and methods. " Scientists in different fields might use standards so different, he said, "that comparisons between the results have been hardly possible." Never forgetting that the the Civil Aviation Act that governs the issuing of an Air Traffic Controller's Licence to a qualified holder, opens with a statement within that licence that states... "Nothing within these rules and regulations will preclude the licence holder from taking any action deemed necessary, on the basis of safety first and expedition second" ... WHICH inevitably required an intricate understanding of the integrated multi-disciplinary scientific nature of the the task at hand, particularly with regard to and respect for the Joint Civil/Military Upper Airspace Training that was then required of the very first intake of Military & Civilian personnel. . . I CAN ONLY SUPPOSE IN 4D HINDSIGHT ... That [IT] had been as a result of Winston Churchill's initiative to introduce the IDEA of utilising the 10cm Magnetron technology to Vannevar Bush, that the MIT Rad Lab was subsequently established to develop airborne radar systems which would inevitably influence the outcome of WWII. …; Added by Michael Grove at 22:15 on December 10, 2021

Comment on: Blog Post 'Freedom to associate': GCE 'A' Levels in Maths Pure and Maths Applied as well as Physics and ART • and I well remember his explanation of the IDEA of a MEMEX, which would take the form of an electronically computerised version of a rolodex device; and so [IT] was that having considered the idea of joining a BOAC pilot training programme, it transpired that I was invited to be one of the first cadets, straight from Grammar School, to be trained as Ministry of Aviation Air Traffic Controllers • and so [IT] was that I began my training, by way of learning the concept of systems analysis on an IBM 64K Mainframe Computer, that then transmogrified into a familiarisation with Digital Equipment Corporation PD11s and my subsequent IDEA of utilising the AFTN for the purpose of an enhanced radar-handover capability, between Air Traffic Control Centres, during my secondment to Eurocontrol, and subsequent return to the CAA at West Drayton. …; Added by Michael Grove at 10:02 on November 28, 2021

THAT my early experience with…

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