From: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Subject: Skunk Works Digest V5 #82 Reply-To: skunk-works-digest@mail.orst.edu Errors-To: skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu Precedence: bulk Skunk Works Digest Tuesday, 10 May 1994 Volume 05 : Number 082 In this issue: new way of funding Groom Lake?? Re: new way of funding Groom Lake?? Digest Re: Design drawings wanted See the end of the digest for information on subscribing to the skunk-works or skunk-works-digest mailing lists and on how to retrieve back issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: TRADER@cup.portal.com Date: Mon, 9 May 94 00:46:53 PDT Subject: new way of funding Groom Lake?? One wonders if the Air Force has found a new way of financing its Nevada activities, such as Groom Lake, after reading the following information about a recent Air Force manual... AFMAN34-129, Air Force Slot Machine Controls and Procedures. This manual implements AFI34-120, Slot Machine Program, AFI34-202, Protection Assets, and AFI34-209, NAF Financial Management and Accounting. It describes how to administer and operate a slot machine program, and sets forth the internal controls and procedures necessary to ensure the integrity of the program. It also expands on the individual responsibilities of specific individuals involved in the day-to-day operation of the program. Distr: F. OPR: AFMWRSA/MWQI. Paul McGinnis / TRADER@cup.portal.com ------------------------------ From: smith@atfs0.dsd.northrop.com (Dick Smith) Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 13:37:23 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: new way of funding Groom Lake?? > > One wonders if the Air Force has found a new way of financing its Nevada > activities, such as Groom Lake, after reading the following information > about a recent Air Force manual... > > AFMAN34-129, Air Force Slot Machine Controls and Procedures. This manual > implements AFI34-120, Slot Machine Program.... Surely you jest. Seven or eight years ago I worked on a contract to Bally Corporation, adding data communications for daily financial reporting to a bunch of microprocessor controlled slot machines. If I remember correctly, one of the customers for this feature was one of the military services (can't remember which one), which already had slot machines at some base exchanges or clubs. And if they've got the machines, there must be a manual, right? Now, if you want to suggest that they're funding Groom Lake off the Officers' Club profits...? - -- Dick Smith smith@ast.dsd.northrop.com Software Unit Manager home: dick@smith.chi.il.us Northrop ESD ------------------------------ From: mikek@cscns.com (Mike Keithly) Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 18:43:44 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Digest Hello I subscribed to Skunk Works Digest sometime ago, is it sent to me or how do I obtain it.. Thanks-- mikek@cscns.com ------------------------------ From: Mary Shafer Date: Mon, 9 May 1994 23:05:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Design drawings wanted That Jimmy Stewart movie, "No Highway in the Sky", was derived from a Nevil Shute (Norway) book, "No Highway". The book is, as usual, better than the movie and the movie is pretty good. Regards, Mary Mary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR shafer@ursa-major.spdcc.com Some days it don't come easy/And some days it don't come hard Some days it don't come at all/And these are the days that never end.... ------------------------------ End of Skunk Works Digest V5 #82 ******************************** To subscribe to skunk-works-digest, send the command: subscribe skunk-works-digest in the body of a message to "majordomo@mail.orst.edu". If you want to subscribe something other than the account the mail is coming from, such as a local redistribution list, then append that address to the "subscribe" command; for example, to subscribe "local-skunk-works": subscribe skunk-works-digest local-skunk-works@your.domain.net To unsubscribe, send mail to the same address, with the command: unsubscribe skunk-works-digest in the body. Administrative requests, problems, and other non-list mail can be sent to either "skunk-works-digest-owner@mail.orst.edu" or, if you don't like to type a lot, "prm@mail.orst.edu A non-digest (direct mail) version of this list is also available; to subscribe to that instead, replace all instances of "skunk-works-digest" in the commands above with "skunk-works". Back issues are available for anonymous FTP from mail.orst.edu, in /pub/skunk-works/digest/vNN.nMMM (where "NN" is the volume number, and "MMM" is the issue number).