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sn#113530 filedate 1974-07-26 generic text, type T, neo UTF8
Re the affect of denying me hardware on my programming:
I've been denyed hardware ever since starting to work on the
cart, and it's mainly that fact that has kept me hardware hacking,
trying to put something together out of scraps. What I've been
bargaining for in the current case is something that makes such
hacking unnecessary, namely a complete, working, transmitter. If you
saw fit to allocate a modest amount of technician time to the cart,
I'd even promise to keep my hands off hardware altogether, and work
diligently, and full time, on the programs needed to make the cart
go.
Re the need for hardware:
The forty or so pictures on Baumgart's area are already
starting to nauseate me, and they fill his allocation in spite of the
fact that he has the largest disk area at the lab. It's pretty
obvious that even at this stage my programs are being optimized to
work with that set, at the expense of the wider variety of real road
scenes. A working transmitter would provide thousands of times the
variety available now.