60+ year old thread.

Evening all:
I have water, total cost was just shy of a grand.

That's crazy Ken, sure glad we don't have that in Pa., well, maybe for some!

That recipe sounds good Alan, never tried putting whipped cream on, might have to try that.

 

You have to fire enough rounds to empty your revolver and then reload and empty it again in 25 seconds? And also two reloads in 45 seconds in two positions?

Not sure I could do that.

I'll have to try it next time I'm out...

 

It takes practice. We use speed loaders with the revolvers so that makes reloading pretty quick. Thing is speed loaders aren’t as easy as they seem. You need to practice or a quick reload can go fubar and not be quick at all.

 

Good morning fellow Porchatonians!

That CCW qualification looks like a police qualification.

 

Our local Agway had credit card sized plastic punch cards for their 24/7 self service gas pumps in the early seventies. Mostly for commercial accounts but retail customers could open an account as well, came in handy during the gas crises.

 

The origin of the dreaded "hanging chad"!!!!!!! I'll swear there was at least one in every deck I commissioned.

 

I really don't get the reasoning behind the requirement to begin with.

 

Good Morning Porch Pals & Gal! Well, all the rain is going to be moving on for now. After our 0.1" yesterday morning in, the tap is off. Soon as I laid that sod, that was it for rain. That front is now settled South of us, and we won't get nothing but spitz and sputz! All told, 0.7" in the two days, so at least I won't have to water tonight. At least the outlook is "wetter than normal".

Getting to feel a little curmudgeonly around here. My Samsung watch is back for "repair" for the 5th time, and is supposed to be refunded after three. Fighting with an Amazon vendor who advertised Polaris products, and subbed them for China stuff. (Polaris is mostly China parts, but I was looking for a specific thing), Then he tried to screw me over on the return to play the money hold. And woke up to an email from my Prescription Insurance that my order was on hold for "credit or price adjustment"; there's plenty of credit there, but it more than doubled in cost! Already at the famous donut hole, so it wasn't that. Send a mail asking why, and waiting for answer. Check your Rx!

 

That’s insane. Criminals with guns don’t take qualification tests, so this is an unfair restriction on law abiding citizens.

Morning all!

 

Man, that is nuts and I feel excessive. I know after launching 50 practice rounds through my S&W 38+ snubbiie, my hand feels like a caught a high-fly to center field barehanded.

 

I enjoyed punch cards.

Programming language seems foreign at first, but you are doing things like "set register A to value; set register B to a value; perform a function on these registers."

After a year, I could glance at cards and have an idea of what they did. 80 characters per card. Encoding was simple once I got the hang of it. We had special operations for "dump all registers," so slipping one of those into the stack would work nicely. https://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/

The 1970s started with a "microprocessor" called the 8080 and a whole bunch of variations of that thing. The same idea still worked. Registers, stacks, operations. Still at it, but forgetting things years later. Great time to grow up and learn things.

Life's irony my son came across an interesting ethernet issue, so I told him, "oh, write a script and go into the ethernet chip to hack the handshaking." I walked him through register sets and deep dive, but you need to go back to bare metal to get access. He was at Defcon and explaining to a friend what he was doing. To me, it is super straightforward but time-consuming.

 

I've ordered things from Amazon, had them cancelled due to being "out of stock", was able to reorder immediately... and the price had gone up substantially. And when I write a review stating the practice Amazon cancels my review and deletes it.

It's almost like shopping at Walmart.

 

Good morning all. I'm very emotional today. I'm retiring after nearly 37 years and they are having a celebration at the office. Things have happen at work that the news media got totally wrong. (Not surprised, I've been misquoted and put into false content many times in my career. I don't trust the news). I haven't let myself get excited to retire but I can't help start missing the 100's of people I've worked with. I also am leaving at a time that all hell has broke loose and I truly don't want to walk away from this explosion. Pension papers are in and processes so I really can't turn back. I'll be glad when Friday is over and maybe I can take a breath.

I hope you all have a great day. Do something fun. Give service to one individual today and make them happy.

 

Oh and dropping the box of punch cards was a complete riot.

 

Congratulations. It's time for the new....

 

Congratulations!

The hardest part of leaving for me was worrying about who would attend to all my "important responsibilities".
(...insert ha,ha,ha with an undercurrent of sarcasm here...)
Ultimately someone will, or maybe they won't.

Either way you have done your best and done you time - get out there and start living for you and the ones important to you.

 

The first commercially available was the INTEL 4004. There weren't textbooks on the subject yet, so we studied from notes we got from TEXAS INSTRUMENTS.

Tex

 

Run away and don’t look back.
It’s much better on the other side.

 

Yep. I meant to write, "I started with the 8080." 4004 was the first, but I started on 8080, then 8085, then 8051—later the 8061 Ford version of the 8096.

https://oldcomputers.net/imsai8080.html

One of my first jobs was building a programmer for the 2758 EPROM. 2708's were a 1K x 8 device, and 2758 was a "1/2 functioning" version (basically rejects). Oh, frustrating as Intel had bonded out the nonfunctional side. It took a while to figure that one out. 500 bytes was enough to make a crud boot loader. The program is then loaded by punched paper tape!

I probably had more fun than most Engineers. Geek city! When working with the 8061, I thought "dead end" career-wise. Thankfully worked closely with the Ford Guys, having previously worked at Bosch, so when they started looking at next-generation stuff, I was ahead of the curve. PowerPC MPC509 (it was a dog) but led to MPC555 and a ton of derivatives still used today.

Still working and enjoying it, but thinking of the next chapter as I am slowing down.

 

Morning all:

Enjoy the retirement Bryan, I know that I and many others are!