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mspreety99
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0.  Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 6:34 am Post subject: does anyone know anything about the history of ddr? |
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hey does anyone know anything on the history of ddr?
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terence
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| 1. Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 8:20 am Post subject: |
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Way way back many centuries ago...
Not long after the bible began...
DDR came from the land of Japan
A fine example of a Konami Game!
Sung to the intro tune(Jacob and Sons) in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat"
I think if you look one page back on this forum, there was already a question like this.
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ZephyrGlaze
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| 2. Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:26 am Post subject: Re: does anyone know anything about the history of ddr? |
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| I, in a thread just one page back wrote: | DDR was first conceived of in the early 1900s. The ghost of Thomas Edison had been recently resurrected (again), and Ghost Eddy was looking for a way to get his name back out in the public. Looking at the time's rapid expansion of modernization to an urban and suburban public, he couldn't help but think to himself "I wonder how the power grids will keep up."
Now if you remember, Edison was actually a big fan of DC (direct current) power, isntead of what we use today (alternating current). His vision for the times was a combustion powered DC generator on every street corner (as DC voltage weakens greatley over the distance it travels).
As a new scheme to make DC the standard across America, and enable the country to provide power for itself unburdened, he decided that his next invention to be a human-powered generator.
Electric bicycles were too boring an idea, or any motion that repetative. Instead, he devised something like his recently devised "stairmastor" concept. Instead of taking power from rotationg a staircase, why not just have someone step on a conductor that would change the electric potential etween two panels, which could be used to generate current.
He encased 8 of these as two diamond shapes into a metal casing, and began testing how much power he could get from them. He quickly discovered that stepping on the panels in a rhymic fashion, and alternating which panels he stepped on gave him a more optimal power output.
For the next version of his new invention, he devised a way to encourage the public that would run the stations to put optimal output. A gramaphone was fastened to the case (now called the "pad"), and matrix of bliking LEDs was placed in front of the "stompers." Over the years, this interface has evolved, but we can see that even iin Ghost Edison's days, the concept was still intact.
As a beta test for his invention, he set up power stations across the country, calling them Arrow Recreation Center And Direct Electromotivation centers, or simply ARCADE centers.
But for poor Tommy Zombie, America had already made its choice. The Niagra Falls power plant had shown the world that AC was the only way to get power across vast distances, and we would be cutting ourselves off from long-range transportation of converted natural energies (such as hydroelectric, thermal, and baby souls). They abbandoned Edison's fancies, but kept the ARCADEs in operation, finding that the public found them an entertaining diversion from their everyday lives.
Oh, and a quick aside: when batteries were first being developed, the test chargings were being done with primitive DDR machines. But the inner workings of the batteries were quite fragile, and the power brought to them had to be very consistant (especially the smaller ones). The type of the battery is the lowest grade you could've gotten to charge the battery without charging it. This is why it's so much harder to find AAA batteries over AA batteries. |
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P-Chan
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| 3. Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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there have been many threads with the same topic... just look a page back... maybe some more as well... and you'll find some info regarding this
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