Elliot's Trackside Diner....JUNE 2013!!!!

[Anonymous]

Good Afternoon Gang!

I am back from Wolfsburg, where I picked up my new car. Runs like a charm. The best part is, the computer reading showed 67mpg for the trip from Wolfsburg to my home. Not bad for a little gasoline engine.

Yesterday afternoon, Petra took me to our train station where I boarded this nice looking train:

50 minutes later, I arrived in Bremen, where I had to change trains for Hannover:

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Upon arrival, a short tram ride took me to my son´s place, where I spent an enjoyable evening. Have not seen the little one for quite some time, so we had lots to talk about.

This morning, I took the first train out to Wolfsburg, arriving there at 7am.

Driving back took a little over two hours...

Have a good one!

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!!!

Coffee and scrambled eggs, loose, hasbrowns with peppers and onions and covered in sausage gravy please, thanks. Good thing about the food here is even milk products do not have a negative affect on the sinus drainage. Ya. That's putting it politely I think.

Mostly sunny, with a high near 79.

Well Jeff, I guess all good things must come to an end. Or at least a downsizing.  The way I figure it, once the computer station goes up, after a bit you will figure a way to make the L&A just a little bit bigger.

Sinuses still under pressure,but feeling a ton better today. Things are evacuating the prem-misseezzz more effectively now if you catch my drift.

Well, yard needs mowed, but first I gotta finish up the return air setup at the restaurant. I hope it pulls enough out to keep the place at least tolerable. It gets so hot in the summer with all the customers flappin their gums and breathing, even with the A/C set on 50, it’d be 85 in the restaurant with the unit justa running full bore. No place for the hot air to go. Until now (little super hero figure). The waitresses are sweating and there’s nothing worse than a sweaty waitress…….well, for most of us. But hey, to each their own right?

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

[blownout cylinder]

Good Mor...cough cough cough..ning

Well, today is another dull wet day for our ...cough cough cough gack wheeze...viewing pleasure. Going to a high of 70F later on..right now it is 58F Getting kinda tired of this one day sun, several dull wet days scenario...rea..cough cough cough...lly now..

Today I have a few thing to do indoors then it is off for the rest of the day...cough cough cough...

Have a good...cough cough cough gack gack...day!!

[galaxy]

jeffrey-wimberly

Also today I cut my satellite TV bill in half. Satellite TV alone was costing me $97.23 a month. I realized long ago that I didn't need all those channels so today I cut it back to the basic package and knocked $53.24 off my bill. I still get many of the channels I usually watch. The others I can live without. Between satellite and internet I was paying $149.23 total. $96 feels much better.

Gee, Jeffrey, we pay just $83/month for: high speed {cable} internet, something like 250 channels of cable TV {we rarely watch all of THAT} and included is cable telephone service!

Now I feel better about what we pya, though when teh contract is up, if htey don;t give us something similar, I will go in search of alternatives...Have you tried the "RABBIT TV"?? I think it is $10 bucks a pop for two units {or maybe it works out to $10 per unit for the two pack at $20} for essentilaly "free tv", may be well worth it, but then we have to have it plugged into the computer all the time as the TV in our house is on ALL the time we are up and awake.

 

[galaxy]

Morning in the diner...

GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!!!

Today is Thursday, June 13th, 2013!!!

I will light the prayer candles at 9 AM for those in need...

MAKE IT A GREAT DAY!!!

RUB THE WRONG WAY:

{or Brit. rub someone up}

Dictionary:

Idiom:

rub the wrong way, to irritate; offend; annoy: a manner that seemed to rub everyone the wrong way

Related Idiom:

Ruffle someone's feathers

This saying means to deal with someone insensitively-on purpose or accidentally.  The term goes back to colonial times {?} when floors were wide oak boards.  Once a week, servants had to wet-rub and then dry-rub these floors.  Seems simple? Well, if it wasn't done with the grain,  streaks were made.  To the Manor owner, this was worse than doing nothing, and a real embarrassment when company came to visit. So a servant was often called clumsy or inept by the employer if they "rubbed the floor the wrong way". Today the term means anyone  who irritates others by a clumsy word or action.

Another version:     To "Rub [someone] the wrong way" also refers to animals. Take a cat for instance: if you rub it along the way its fur grows (head to tail), it's fine, but if you rub it the wrong way (from tail to head), it gets extraordinarily angry and irritated

Here it is referring to a plant, printed in 1806:

 

 ^{A General System of Nature, 1806}

[jeffrey-wimberly]

V8Vega

I haven't used my printer in maybe as long as a year and a half. Its out of ink and my sister bought me some re manufactured ink cartridges for my birthday a year ago, they are in sealed plastic bags. I wanted to print my airline instructions I guess that's your ticket, is that right? The printer kept saying paper jam, I couldn't see anything wrong, I read the instruction book and fooled with it for 1 1/2 or 2 hours and gave up in dispare thourally aggravated and upset.

Many printers have a piece on the back that guides the paper around the rollers. This piece can sometimes get a bit of paper jammed in it or it may have a bug stuck in it. I've had that happen so I know it can happen. This piece can be pushed in on one end and pulled out. If there's anything in there you'll see it. My printer is an old HP3930, so I have the occasional paper jam too.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

howmus

Wonder where everyone is tonight?  Maybe they are all in shock with Jeffrey announcing he is downsizing his layout!!!  What are you thinking Jeff?!?

I'm making room for a computer station. I need to get my computer equipment up off the floor, I need a place to set up at least one of my Apple computers and I need a place to work on my computer equipment. I used to work on it down on the floor but these days it's hard for me to get up off the floor now.

[howmus]

Hello?  Hello?  Anybody here???  Ah, I see Garry is here....

Janie, just a decaf please.

Thought I had posted this morning, but I now remembered the Tree Service showed just about the time I was reading the diner early this morning.  The hedge is now history, the neighbors had them come back and trim the two large trees in their front yard, and I got 4 face cord of hardwood for next winter from one of the guys who works for the tree service.  Productive day all told. 

They didn't cut the Hemlock trees that formed the hedge, they just pulled them out of the ground!  I will have to get a few more yards of topsoil to fill in the holes, but it will make putting in the new fence a whole lot easier.  The lady next door and I talked for a while when she got home from school, and we have decided on what we want to do the the fence.  I spent a couple hours online reading the codes for fence here in the city.  I will next have to convince the code officer that what we want to do is within the city codes (they should be, but you know how these things go).

Wonder where everyone is tonight?  Maybe they are all in shock with Jeffrey announcing he is downsizing his layout!!!  What are you thinking Jeff?!?

I need to get to bed very soon as I have duty at the museum tomorrow morning!

Later!  Prayers for all in need...

73

[jeffrey-wimberly]

It's still 85 here. Looking like tomorrow will be in the mid 90's. Today I started seeing how many and what type of track sections I'll need for the new track plan. I have plenty of curve sections. I can get the straight pieces I need from the display rack. Of course this means I won't be able to run such long trains anymore. Oh well, such is life. Also today I cut my satellite TV bill in half. Satellite TV alone was costing me $97.23 a month. I realized long ago that I didn't need all those channels so today I cut it back to the basic package and knocked $53.24 off my bill. I still get many of the channels I usually watch. The others I can live without. Between satellite and internet I was paying $149.23 total. $96 feels much better. Had dinner at my fathers place tonight. Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuits.

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Looks like everybody conked out for the afternoon and evening!   ..... 

[galaxy]

Jeffrey..it can be sad to see them go, I know...I never should have torn apart the "regular layout" or the "big layout" to expand it,,,there really is no room to expand it, and I have doen little to it anyway.

THEN I just about 1 month ago, finally  took down the Under the tree smaller layout to apease MOH.

Well today I went grocery shopping and got the free bread, lock, stock and barrel!

Well now for a nappy-kins as we tell the cat, when we join him for  a nap. LION would be so proud,... the cat is BIG ORANGE long haired furry thing with a mane that makes him look like a  mini-lion!

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

MisterBeasley

Jeffrey, what are you going to do with those old computers?  It's neat that they still boot up and run, but is there anything more than old games that you can use them for?  I seem to be hauling one old machine or another to our annual Earth Day electronics recycling at work every year.  This  year, they stopped taking old CRTs.  I've got one or two of those I wanted to give them.

Believe it or not I used to use them for writing and uploading source code for modern computers up until the release of Windows 98 and there's no reason I couldn't do it again if I wanted to. Yes you can write modern C++ visual basic programs on a 1982 vintage Apple computer using an ordinary basic compiler or a word processing program. Just don't be expecting to be able to run the program while it's in production. What I'll probably do though is play around with them, play some games, maybe write some new games and just have fun with them.

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Well I've decided it's time to cut back on the size of the layout. It's had the lions share of the room for many years now and I'm not really doing anything with it anymore. So I'm planning to remove the extension and part of the west side. The areas in yellow will be eliminated.



The track plan will be adjusted to fit in the remaining space. A tentative plan is below.



This will give me space to set up a computer station and get my equipment up off the floor. With no computer repair/parts shop in this area anymore I need to get back into practice on how to build/repair my own equipment. I have no intention of having to depend on the limited 'cookie cutter' computers available on the market. Those change so fast that tomorrow you can't get parts for what you bought yesterday because the store is now carrying the next big thing that was obsolete before it even left the factory. My last computer was one I built myself and it had very few limitations for what I needed it for. The system I have now is a nice looking Hewlett Packard and it's already demonstrated that it has many limitations that I'm finding it hard to get around. For one much of the software I have won't work on it because it can't run anything that's not 64bit compliant. In fact the only good things I can say about it are that it works and it has built-in slots for my camera cards. So if I want a computer that meets MY needs I'm going to have to build it myself and that begs another argument for the computer station. I'm thinking of getting started on that soon. There a few important things that have to be gotten out of the way first though. The most important of those is  my father's wedding next week then I have an upcoming physical on the 24th. So I'm thinking the 25th of this month would be a good time to get started on the heavy stuff. In the meantime there's no reason I can't start on clearing the small stuff away.

[pascaff*]

  Morning All,

     Currently it is 57 with an expected high of 88 under sunny skies and breezy conditions in the afternoon.

   I still have an old Atari 800XL and a Tandy (forget which model) in boxes someplace in the garage. Don't know why I have kept them.

   Busy day ahead for a non-w**k day. Need to do laundry, food shop, then cook a few meals for the week, vacuum downstairs, coffee pot tells me it needs a cleaning, and SIL and husband want to stop by on their way back home to Phoenix for a short visit. Oh yes need to pay some bills too. Maybe I will get a few minutes to w**k on train stuff.

  Prayers to all in need.

     Paul

edit: I got top so eat up folks. It is OK Monday I got paid.

[MisterBeasley]

Good morning!  Not sure about the weather here - 60s, maybe sun, maybe rain.

Oh, my aching bones.  I'm getting too old to play ice hockey.  I didn't play well last night at all - I couldn't get into the game mentally.  It might be the weather.  Heat and humidity drain me, and it's not even hot yet.  The Stanley Cup finals start tonight, though, so maybe that will recharge me.

Jeffrey, what are you going to do with those old computers?  It's neat that they still boot up and run, but is there anything more than old games that you can use them for?  I seem to be hauling one old machine or another to our annual Earth Day electronics recycling at work every year.  This  year, they stopped taking old CRTs.  I've got one or two of those I wanted to give them.

Curt, I know it's ridiculous, but I feel bad about cutting the legs off of those passengers.  I still do it, but part of me anthopomorphizes them.  I even took one set of "donor" legs and transplanted them on to an old lead casting of a num who had lost her legs somewhere along the line.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Good morning. It's 76° with 97% humidity. The high will be 95°.


I really don't know what I'm going to do today. Maybe some general cleanup on the layout. Run a train or two. Or maybe I can sit back and do a whole bunch of nothing. I'm really good at that. I managed somehow to get about five hours of sleep last night. Well if you get tired enough anything could be possible. Working on the old computers yesterday was a very pleasant experience. I haven't had that much fun in quite a while.

[TMarsh]

Good Morning!!!

Coffee and a breakfast burrito please, thank you. (yaaawn)

A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 4pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. Heat index values as high as 100.

Boy what a difference a couple hours makes huh?  Decided to try to go back to bed about 4, woke up at 6. Wrist doesn’t hurt near as much, almost tolerable now. Sinuses are less pressurized, nose isn’t as full AND….not coughing as much. Wonder why. Oh well, I’ll take it.

Did get a bit of a shock earlier as I was killing time. I found out that yes Brenda did consolidate medicines, but no not types. All the blister packs said the same ingredients. BUT one pack, a small one, the one I used last night, had an expiration date of 04/09 instead of 05/14 and 08/15 like the rest. So… I’m a thinkin….I got one of them and it just didn’t w*rk good at all. And speaking of ingredients, out of curiousity, I looked up the ingredients for Aphedrid. Well, one of the sites was Drugs.com.  They showed the ingredients as Pseudoephedrine and Triprolidine. Hm I says. Then why shouldn’t that stuff w**k and why do I have the opinion it wasn’t the same….looked up Actifed and it had two main ingredients as something else…Now wait says I. I’ve got a box of Actifed….actually Wal-Act generic/storebrand Actifed as they don’t make Actifed anymore and I don’t understand how they don’t make a name brand but continue with a generic/store name... but they do. Anyway, I degress. I look at the box of Wal-Act and there it has my two beloved ingredients that  Drugs.com says is Aphedrid and through further research on the web found a picture of a flat box of Aphedrid and it’s ingredients were , well in a nutshell…they had the ingredients of the two mixed up. I don’t think I’ll use that website again…that could be bad. Someone trusts them and they have some kind of reaction.

OK, now I’m really rambling. Trying to stay awake  even though I’m not tired, but I know I will be soon. I have to construct a return air setup for the restaurants AC in the dining room today and then I should be pretty much open for a nap….I hope.

Ya’ll have a good day, ya hear!!!!

[galaxy]

Morning coffee in the diner...

GOOD WEDNESDAY MORNING!!!

Today is Wednesday, June 12th, 2013!!!

I wil light the prayer candles at 9 am for those in need...

MAKE it A GREAT DAY!!!

LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL:

MEANING:

The whole thing

Lock, stock, and barrel is a figure of speech used predominantly in the United Kingdom and North America, meaning 'all', 'total', 'everything'. The effective portions of a gun are the lock {used to hold the sparking mechanism}, the stock {the portion held on to}, and the barrel {the aiming guide and conveyor for the explosive-driven ball}. Collectively they are the weapon, therefore, everything

Origin:

short version:

In days of old {and now too}, a rifle or a musket had 3 major parts: A lock, a stock {of wood} and a metal barrel. Each part was useless without the other one, combined they made a great rifle.  They had to all work together or you got nothing.  Thus, when a person chose to put 200% of everything into an decision, action or commitment, he is said to be doing it "lock, stock and barrel."

Alternate wrong origin, though often used today to represent property purchased 'in toto'{latin for "completely" or "in total"}: lock, stock and barrel also referred to what happened when you bought a farm. Lock meant the house, stock was all the animals, and barrel was the rain barrel {meaning all the trivial junk}, so that it was absolutely everything at the time of sale that was on the land that was sold. If the previous owner left something valuable behind  it was yours  as it had  sold to you lock, stock and barrel.

LONGER VERSION:

It's been  suggested that this phrase refers to all of a shopkeeper's possessions - the stock in trade, the items stored in barrels and the lock on the door. This explanation is entirely fanciful though - the 'whole thing' in question when this phrase originated was a musket. Muskets were composed of three parts:

- The lock {or flintlock} as the firing mechanism. Various forms of 'lock' muskets were used from the 1400s onwards, e.g. firelocks, flintlocks, matchlocks etc. The term 'lock' may have been adopted because the mechanism resembles a door lock.

- The stock- which is the wooden butt-end of the gun. '"Stock'"is the old term for wooden butt or stump and is a generic term for a solid base. It was used as early as 1495 in association with Tudor guns, in a bill for 'gonne stokkes'.

- The barrel, as in a cylindrical object, is an even older word and was well established by the 15th century. This may be the least obvious of these three terms. In the 15th century people would have been very familiar with barrels as the squat coopered containers used for storage and not hardly similar to the cylindrical tubes that were used in muskets. It may have been that the term migrated from cannons or other sorts of gun which were more barrel shaped.

Note: that 'lock, stock and barrel' refers to muskets, not rifles. What makes rifles different from earlier guns are the spiral grooves inside the barrel, which cause the bullet to rotate and fly more truly. 'Rifle' derives from the French verb 'rifler' - to scratch or scrape.

Also note : that some make a distinction between spirals (i.e. coiling around a fixed point - like a watch-spring) and helixes (i.e. advancing around an axis - like a corkscrew). If you prefer such nicety then your rifle's grooves are helicoid not spiral.

Given the antiquity of the three words that make up the phrase and the fact that various guns have been in use since at least the Hundred Years' War in 1450, and even earlier in other countries {China}, we might expect it to be very old. In fact it isn't particularly; the earliest use of it appears to come from around the beginning of the 19th century believe it or not. The reason for the weasly 'around' is the difficulty of separating the literal uses of 'lock, stock and barrel' from the figurative uses that don't refer directly to guns; for example, the earliest use of the phrase that I have found is from James Ray's A Compleat History of the [Jacobite] Rebellion, 1752:

...she found my Highland Pistols, which were a Piece of curious Workmanship, the Stock, Lock and Barrel being of polish'd Steel.

Calling that usage a phrase stretches thin; it is more a form of words, and certainly not a metaphorical reference to 'the whole thing'. Such grouping together of 'stock' and 'lock' and 'barrel' does lay the groundwork for their adoption as a single unit as a phrase; an example of that is found in the USA in July 1803 in The Connecticut Sentinel. The newspaper included a letter that reported on a celebration of the 4th of July, in the town of Stratford. The 30 men present carried a 'huge keg o' rum' around the town and then drank toasts with 'full bumpers' {glasses filled to the brim} to:

1st: The 4th of July, 1776, the birthday of our ninepence... 2nd: Jefferson, Paine, Gallatin and all the rest... [...] 6th: Patriotism - Self interest, the cock, lock, stock and barrel. [and so on...]

After the 13th toast the records peter out, remarking that the company was 'over zealous' and 'celebrated all night'. The participants might have been 'feeling no pain' and possibly recalled little detail the next morning, but the writer seems to have noted the events precisely. His usage is clearly figurative rather than literal and as such is the earliest use of the phrase that can be found. The inclusion of 'cock' {the firing hammer} lends additional weight to the argument that the allusion is to that of firearms. The colloquial use and lack of any explanation suggests that the phrase was in circulation in the USA in 1803 and earlier citations may well be found.

Rudyard Kipling came close to giving us a definition of the term in 1891, in Light That Failed:

"The whole thing, lock, stock, and barrel, isn't worth one big yellow sea-poppy."

So now, I take on the day, lock, stock and barrel!

Have a good one!

[TMarsh]

(yaaaaaawn smack, smack, smack) I don't know what's the deal but nothing is w*rking on these sinuses tonight. Had a pretty good evening at w*rk though, so I though I was in for a good sleepy sleepy. WRONG! the TEASE! Lay down and just about to doze off and cough, cough, COUGH, COUGH well, you get the idea. get up go to the bathroom unload nose hack and spit for 5 minutes then back to bed and the cycle starts all over. I finally just got up a bit after 0130 because Brenda has to go to w**k tomorrow and if I'm there she won't get any sleep. Am now drinking hot coffee and wondering why my right wrist is hurting so BAD! Oh my gosh. Didn't hit it, didn't hurt it, don't know. I do have Uncle Arthur living there, but this is worse than it's ever been. I wonder if I was spurred there by one of them there Platypuses. Platypie.

(yaaaawn) See? I don't do too bad sitting up, but lay down...whoof!.

YOu know what....I better check what I took. It could be that I took Aphedrid instead of Actifed. She could have combined the boxes thinkin, or rather believing they were the same thing. That's how I got that stuff to begin with. She couldn't get Actifed (actually the generic equivalent) so she gets Aphedrid instead. Lady said it was the same thing. I say it's not. I tried it, it's not.

Well, I've kept you awake long enough guess i'll poke around the net. Maybe check out the trainroom. probably oughta try to lie down again really. I got me things to do tomarry  

 

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Howdy ..... 

Ken ... Looks like quite a project.

Galaxy.... Thanks for looking up "spill the beans". 

Thinking of old computers. .... My small claim to fame is I was was the first in the company I worked for to us a personal computer for analysis of data. I was able to borrow the early IBM PC and obtained a copy of the very first version of Lotus 1-2-3. With that, I made a complete financial planning model for the company. 

Here is an update on my E7 headlight project. My idea today was to simulate the dual beam headlights in each of the two housings on the nose of a Burlington E7. I made a part from .020" styrene to place inside each clear lens. The fabricated part has two small holes for the LED to shine through. I painted the visible surface silver, and I painted the back side flat black. Then I installed it inside the nose with plastic cement. 

It is hard to capture the effect in a photo, but this picture gives you a good idea. The upper lights, clear and red, are off. The lower lights are on, and the photo blends them together. 

I heard Kentucky got in the news with a bad school bus accident on Interstate 64 in Louisville which sent 35 high school students to the hospital with injuries. 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Been busy all day working on computers. I just got them put back up in the closet for the time being. I need a 64k memory expander for the 64k machine. There's a guy in California who has a good one and he's sending it to me. It should be here by the 18th. Once it's here I'll install it and that'll be that much more done. I still need to find a good Z80 Cp/M board for it at a descent price.

Time for me to call it a night. See y'all tomorrow.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

howmus

Whoa!  What's this?  An Apple IIe???  Haven't seen one of those in a good many years!  Hey it even has two drives...  The 128k machine.  Yes!  I was the first teacher at Geneva Middle School to have one of those in my classroom.  Made a for a real nasty argument at the next Faculty Meeting where the principal had to try to explain why a lowly Music Teacher got a 128k machine when all the math, and English teachers (you know the "real" teachers) only had 64k ones!

Actually my 128k machine has four drives. Two 5.25" Apple Disk II drives and two 5.25" Franklin 1000 Ace drives. I pulled one of the controllers out and put it in the 64k machine. It had an Apple Duodisk drive which I absolutely can't stand.

[cudaken]

 Evening Dinners

 Flo, pleases.

 VA Hospital Front. Seems the ulcer is no better or worse. It is getting close to a year now. They have ordered me a Rocking Boot, or a Claim Shell Boot, neither sounds like fun! 

 It seems like I may have some surgery coming, I hope! My left little finger will not straighten out, it is stuck at a 74 degree angel. It is starting to get in the way of driving safely. 

 Mopar Front. 

 More than likely I will not stop by the dinner Wednesday, I think there is a 95% chances there will be a 1969 Dodge Daytona sitting at the house when I get home. Allen my best Mopar friend is coming by for a long over do visit after I get home from work!

  Worked on the Road Runner some today after I got home.

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 Started cleaning up the inside.

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 Door panels are in the garage.

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 Only spot on the body that bothers me.

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 Seems I have Mopar eating ant's living in the trunk. Was watching them crawl in and out of the hole.

 Todd Have I got you thinking about your 70 Road Runner Yet?

 I open Wednesday so I better get going.

 Ken

[howmus]

Evenin' folks...

Janie I'll have a Hot Fudge Sunday and a cup of decaf to......  Whoa!  What's this?  An Apple IIe???  Haven't seen one of those in a good many years!  Hey it even has two drives...  The 128k machine.  Yes!  I was the first teacher at Geneva Middle School to have one of those in my classroom.  Made a for a real nasty argument at the next Faculty Meeting where the principal had to try to explain why a lowly Music Teacher got a 128k machine when all the math, and English teachers (you know the "real" teachers) only had 64k ones!

The principle finally got a bit irritated and told them it was because I asked for one and that was what he had!  It was a cast off from an old computer lab at the high school and he was only able to get one for his building (the others went to the elementary schools) and besides he didn't want the Math and English departments mad at each other!  Some of those teachers didn't speak to me all year (which I actually enjoyed, not having to put up with their arrogance...).

I got a bunch of old odds and ends I have been storing sorted and ready to put out for the big neighborhood garage/lawn/porch/driveway/etc. sale in a couple weeks.  Still have 10 or so more boxes to go and then the collectable plates down cellar....  My mom was absolutely convinced they were worth a fortune!  Might get 50¢ for a few of them I think.

The tree service didn't show up today so he should be along tomorrow morning.  I was hoping he would get here today so I wouldn't have to get up at a normal time tomorrow (ergo lose 3 hours of sleep...).

Catch up with you in a bit...

73

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Curt Webb

Our first home computer was a Apple 2E Pro. If I remember right it had no permanent memory, 2 floppy disc drives,  and everything had to be done through floppy disc's.

Yep, no hard disc on those. Mine had a 10mb hard drive but it no work no more. The expanded memory doubles as a RAM Drive.

[BroadwayLion]

LION still has the boxes for computers that were thrown away years ago.

Epson CP/M is still in storage. Yes, two 5" floppies, no hard drive.

ROAR

[Curt Webb]

Our first home computer was a Apple 2E Pro. If I remember right it had no permanent memory, 2 floppy disc drives,  and everything had to be done through floppy disc's.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

thebarnet

Jeffery do they both still work? i have soft spot for the apple II i can rember my dad kept his old one for ages and i can remember sitting with him when i was about 7 learning how to use a computer.

They both work perfectly. They've been extremely well cared for. The 128k system is the one I used when I was a programmer. My mother used the 64k system when she was a stock broker.

[thebarnet]

hello everybody a cup of strong tea for me please today has been rather stressful with the washing machine looking like it had sprung a leak which was rather worrying the fortunately it was just the seal round the drum had come lose so i spent about 2 hours trying to get the (Insert curse word of choice here) thing back on i must have made so much noise that the chap that lives next door came around to see if every thing was OK but every thing is now as my best friend says "Ship shape and Bristol fashion" the machine will run a load of washing through with out soaking the floor.

Jeffery do they both still work? i have soft spot for the apple II i can rember my dad kept his old one for ages and i can remember sitting with him when i was about 7 learning how to use a computer.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Been working on a couple of old computers today. Both are 1982 vintage Apple IIe's. One is a 128k system and the other is 64k. I'm getting a RAM expander to bring the 64k system up to 128k. I've already put Disc II drive controllers in each so they can both use standard 5.25" drives. One had a DuoDisk system which I hate. I was happy to remove the controller for that. Here's a couple of photos of the two dinosaurs.

Other than that I haven't accomplished much today.

[Curt Webb]

Afternoon All,

Vacuumed upstairs today. The estimate is back for the flooring but I have not seen it yet, but my wallet is already hurting. Tomorrow I go back to work and with the heat and humidity it will be busy, busy, busy.

This morning when I came downstairs there was water pouring off the roof. I ran outside and our pool solar had sprung a major leak. I isolated it and it quit. Solar guy is coming out next week to look at it.

Today my sitting HO people arrived for my lighted FOM cars. I had to cut off 76 pairs of legs since the Con-Cor passenger seats had almost no leg room. Putting the light boards back in was a little tricky but it got done and all cars tested good. There is something just wrong about this picture

 

 

Hope everybody has a good night and prayers for those in need.