Anameisbutaname

Convergent Technologies

I actually was misled by the relationship between CT, Burroughs, and Unisys, so I uploaded the Burroughs logo from it's rebadged CT products. I have since deleted this. You can't upload a file to a specific page, you have to upload it and then link from, e.g. the talk page. Use the "upload file" link near the bottom of the menu on menu on the left. You may have to sign on to upload? Peter Flass (talk) 16:09, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply. Because I worked for Convergent Technologies in the UK, back in the 1980's - before it was acquired by Unisys - I imagine it should not be any problem to anyone if I upload my own personal sketch of the company's logo to be shown here on my own User_Talk page.

This is only a sketch and can be replaced if anyone can find an actual original logo that can be found in the public domain somewhere.

A larger view of the sketch can be seen by right-clicking on the image and selecting Open link in New Tab.Anameisbutaname^Talk 21:09, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

No problem. If anyone has a copy of the actual logo that would be OK also. Thanks. Peter Flass (talk) 20:03, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Cinders

I have used what we called clinker (black, from industrial sources - Clinker (waste)) to make paths. Cinders I regard as essentially fine-ash from small hearths, and being red/beige. rgds,--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 21:11, 16 August 2022 (UTC)

Interesting, thanks for mentioning "clinker". Here in the UK we use different words instead of some that are commonly used in the USA. For instance, we don't call road-side paths "sidewalks", we call them "pavements"; instead of "faucets", we commonly use the word "taps".

In the UK clinker is used as an alternative word to "slag", the waste produced alongside an industrial process such as the production of iron or some other metal by smelting an ore.

When coal is incompletely burnt in an open hearth - as in a domestic open fireplace - the residue left after the fire has gone out is called "cinders", not clinker. In the old folk- or fairy-tale "Cinderella" the main character was so-named because one of her daily chores was to remove the cinders from the fireplaces in the mansion where she lived with her two ugly sisters.

Because BTH's sites were in the UK I think it remains appropriate to leave the words "... surfaced with cinders" in place i.e. don't change "cinders" to "clinker" nor place a link to "Scoria" onto the word "cinders". Regards in return, Anameisbutaname^Talk 08:28, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Another thought from me: would you be happy if I change the text to say: "... surfaced with cinders, clinker and/or asphalt." I was an apprentice engineer at BTH Rugby in the early 1960s and remember that path very well. I often used it, either walking or cycling, to get to and from the factory. Over the years worn patches of the path needed to be repaired and many different types of stuff were used. (Whatever was available, I guess.) Rgds again, Anameisbutaname^Talk 11:05, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

I am in Nottinghamshire. The industrial boiler waste was from large mill complex, Pleasley Mills, used to make impromptu surfacing on community-related/improvement projects, part of a work creation scheme under the auspice of the local district authority. The larger-slag would be used where possible and finer stuff for the surface, or it could be raked/hammered/tamped as necessary. This would probably have been a commercial-grade fuel, hence the larger clumps. I've never known fine hearth ash to be used as topping as it would not drain well, although there was a type of stone known as inch-to-dust also being used which would puddle but solidify eventually.

I wasn't seeking any changes, it was just an aside that reminded me of past times! My late uncle was a civil engineer specialising in highways and bridges; he told me in the 1990s that the correct term for road surface was pavement, and the things at the sides known as footways. Also reminded me that my late mother would watch the Catherine Cookson-based television productions. rgds,--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 00:48, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Rocknrollmancer. Your late uncle told you the correct technical definitions civil engineers use for pavements and footways, but ordinary English people who were not trained as civil engineers usually call the footways that go alongside roads pavements.

For all the reasons you've stated, I agree with you that fine hearth ash would never be used on its own as a topping for a path, but fine hearth ash is not the same as cinders. Depending on the type of material that had been put onto the fire to burn, cinders are the partially unburnt cold matter which is left in a hearth if the fire went out before everything had turned to a fine ash. Such cinders include lumps and clumps of various sizes that can be raked/hammered/tamped as necessary (as you've said) to make paths.

Do you also use this User name: R'n'B ?

The first line of that name's User page says: "Hello. I am a Wikipedian from Virginia, USA. My interests include Napoleon, the American Civil War, Wikipedia:WikiProject Law, and Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation."

As it was R'n'B who contributed the link to Scoria that started this discussion, I guessed you could be in Virginia, USA and wrote my first reply accordingly. But now, as as Rocknrollmancer, I guess you could be a Wikipedian from Virginia, USA who is currently in Nottinghamshire! Anameisbutaname^Talk 08:44, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for mentioning The Cinder Path book and film which I'd never heard of it before. It's interesting and relevant. It was just a guess that you might also use the R'n'B user name. On thinking more about it I think it's much more likely that you simply have the BT-H page on your watchlist - same as I do - and that you wrote to me after noticing my edit which removed the reference to scoria. Thanks again anyway. Regards, Anameisbutaname^Talk 09:01, 22 August 2022 (UTC)

Apologies for the delay in getting back; I do not use any other name, but I put the motor images on to BTH article (2013/14 - ouch - has it really been that long? I still have the motor under the bench!) so that's how and why it's on my watchlist. I did read your change. Thinking about your background made me remember a South African colleague in the communications field, early 1970s, who'd completed an apprenticeship at BTH completely sponsored by the SA government; he should've taken back his skills to benefit the country but spent his time travelling the world for work contracts. Unable to return to SA, his fear was the secret police would snatch him at an airport and make him do national service. That's without any compensation he would be expected to pay, assuming he lived through the punishment of survival training in the Congo. Happy days.--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 21:46, 26 August 2022 (UTC)