good morning
overcast and damp but the snowmelt continues.Matt is on time and on the bus.Cw thanks for breakfast.Work is getting busy again so I better get to bed.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Good Monday morning everyone. We have fair skies w/a temp of 50 degrees this morning. Supposed to drop down to about 45, and will get back up to 50 degrees for a high today. Nice breeze blowing this morning.
Happy Valentine's Day to all. Beginning to bake some Valentine shaped sugar cookies for later in the day. (Bake, cool, frost and decorate.)
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages, like the hot water for Larry's and Tom's hot tea are all ready to go. On the serving station this morning: biscuits, bacon, sausage, eggs, gravy, oatmeal, toast, jelly, bagels and bear claws.
I don't know if any of you get Sleuth Channel (we get it on DirecTV), but Walt and I watched a pretty good movie on there last night: Frozen River. It was about this white lady, whose husband walked out on her and their two children. Faced with trying to work, take care of two kids at Christmas time, and trying to pay bills, she meets this Mohawk Indian gal; they transport illegal alians. I won't tell you how the movie ends, in case anyone can get a chance to watch it. But I will say that it held my attention.
Everyone have a beautiful morning, and I'll see you all later on. Preparing a roast w/taters and carrots for our noon and evening meals. Take care, all of you, and see you later.
JoeKoh afternoon let the snow melt continue!!!
afternoon
let the snow melt continue!!!
Lets hope this will not mean that we will be posting a lot of incidents of flooing in the next 2 - 6 weeks.
OK Guys and Dolls: It is 67 degrees here! Checked two different places and both said 67.
Won't tell you that there is still ice on the pond and the wind is ssw about 15-20 so it isn't exactly bathing suit weather, but...
Eat your hearts out - only on sale until next weekend.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
let the snow melt continue!!! went to church and to G+G house to give valentines.going to do some chores and get things ready for work.Matt has the special heart candy out on the placemats.Cw thanks for supper tonight.As Mookie can tell you naps are good!!!
Joe
I'm getting in here late today. It is clear, 41° with a West wind at 23 mph. It was blowing far worse than that when I was up to get my paper at 6:00 AM.
I expected to read reports of damage, but either the news reporters have taken Sunday off, or there really was none. Based on what I heard on the 11:00 news last night, I find that hard to believe. Because of cross ownership of newspapers and TV stations, some times there is no new news here until suppertime because they don't pay their pool reporters to go out early. Being a news junkie I really miss the days of press competition.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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All this computer talk is very interesting!
Here is our Sunday Dinner menu:
1. Fried chicken w/biscuits, gravy, mac & cheese, mashed taters, green beans & corn on the cob.
2. Fish w/above mentioned veggies of mac & cheese, mashed taters & gravy, green beans and corn on the cob.
Think I'm going to go take a short nap: for some reason, my eyes are very tired. You know that feeling you get when your eyes seem to be cold? That's how my eyes are feeling.
In manufacturing I started using CNC milling machines in the late 70's. I created the programs using a teletype and paper tape. The machine read the code one line at a time from the paper tape, using only a one block buffer. At home I bought a Commodore 64 that was very useful. I created the sheets for the football pool, then posted the results on Monday mornings. . I also created a program to compile our batting stats for the company softball team. When the 286 came out, I bought a "math chip" and Auto-Cad for it. That experience served me well when our company expanded with a large CNC department.
Good Sunday morning everyone. Currently we have 38 to 40 degree temps here in Louisville this a.m. Supposed to see a high of about 56 degrees. Maybe spring is on its way!!
Tom, glad to see you made it back in tonight. Sorry to hear about SC's basketball loss yesterday. My Cats even lost yesterday, although it was a very close game. Several times throughout the game, the score was tied. Maybe next year, Coach Cal will have those guys playing like they should be playing.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. On the serving station we have bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs and biscuits & gravy, along with some leftover cold pizza for anyone who wants it.
Bruce, you're very welcome regarding the pizzas last night.
I can't remember the first computer Walt and I had. It was a rental from a rent-to-own place, where we personally knew one of the workers. After we rented that for a few months, we got the computer we now have: a Dell 4550. We had this computer since 2003 or 04.
Everyone have a very good morning, keep safe going to Church, work or railfanning today. See you all later this afternoon.
Modelcar I believe this one {the Wang}, I mention was located in a cubicle of it's own, and any engineeer could come in and work on it....and I don't remember if it was tied to a main frame over in our MIS department or not.....I rather think not. I believe the digits were actually shaped one thru zero, and each was lit with a red color as activated in constructing a row of digits as an answer. I'm quite a few years away from it now....and my memory is not bringing all the details. This was in a mechanical engineering / experimental lab area.....{Automotive Powertrain Products}
I believe this one {the Wang}, I mention was located in a cubicle of it's own, and any engineeer could come in and work on it....and I don't remember if it was tied to a main frame over in our MIS department or not.....I rather think not. I believe the digits were actually shaped one thru zero, and each was lit with a red color as activated in constructing a row of digits as an answer. I'm quite a few years away from it now....and my memory is not bringing all the details.
This was in a mechanical engineering / experimental lab area.....{Automotive Powertrain Products}
Yes, it was a standalone computer. It was actually shaped like a long baseboard heater. The cables to the other offices ran through the walls beside the hot water heater pipes. I am pretty sure it used the RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) system like the original HP calculators. Remember how the numbers used to come in from the left on those?
I also remembered that there was one engineer that still used it when I started that job. To be more accurate, my first job after graduating with my Business Administration Diploma. Similar to what in the US would be called a Community College degree. By that time Texas Instruments had calculators that would run circles around that Wang, but I think this engineer was one of the instigators of that purchase, so he had to justify spending the money.
That first job was being one of three accountants in a department choc 'o bloc full of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Being a nerd from the get go - remember I came from a home with a telegraph, two phone systems and semaphores outside - I fit right in with those guys. There was a fellow that built his own Color TV from a Heathkit!
CW, thanks for the pizza and I will see you folks in the AM.
It's good to hear from you again, Tom, especially since you say that you are improving.
As to barber visits, I missed at least one, and my barber asked me yesterday if I had decided to grow it long. I told her that I had simply not been able to get down to see her.
You mentioned DOS. Ricki still prefers WordPerfect for DOS to the versions for Windows. If I have to go into her files, I have a lot of trouble navigating, considering that she have more one thousand files, in many different folders. I almost need a WPPS (the version of GPS that might help).
Back umpteen years ago, when Ricki was buying a new computer, I recommended that she pay extra for another 32K RAM. Not long after that, the bottom fell out of the 32K RAM (which I was assisting in manufacturing) market, and the production section I was working in laid about 3/4 of its personnel off.
Johnny
Peace be with you. 54 and clear at present in Carolina. As I continue to improve after my surgery, the wife is preparing for surgery of her own this coming Tuesday. This probably means an invasion by a Tasmanian Devil in the form of her sister. That alone is reason enuff to go and hide in a swamp.....
With all the hospital comings and goings, I am behind in my barber visits and am beginning to look like a mad scientist. Hopefully, that can be taken care of soon.
Our first computer was a 286 that a friend put together in 1992. It ran the original DOS and a 5.25 floppy and a whole 30 meg of memory/HD. Imagine that vs today.
Take care
Tom
COAST LINE FOREVER
It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
Hi everyone. I'm really glad to see we have actually been 'busy' in here today! It has really been a beautiful day around here: sunshine, w/a light breeze blowing, and I think we're up to about 48, 49 degrees outside. Not bad at all!
Here is our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:
1. Anchovie
2. Canadian bacon
3. Cheese
4. Chicago style
5. Goetta
6. Hawaiian
7. Italian sausage
8. Pepperoni/mushroom
9. Supreme
Desserts: chocolate cake w/white icing, yellow cake w/chocolate icing, and peach cobbler, all available ala mode.
I hope you all have had a very good day, enjoy your evening and take care.
AgentKid My very first job had one that was already obsolete. in June 1976. You got the name right. I never saw it work. The one they had was actually networked. different people could use it at the same time in their own offices. The cables to hook it all up were thick like plumbing pipe! It was going to cost so much to take it out and patch the holes in the walls, that the cables stayed there for years until the company relocated. Bruce
My very first job had one that was already obsolete. in June 1976. You got the name right. I never saw it work. The one they had was actually networked. different people could use it at the same time in their own offices. The cables to hook it all up were thick like plumbing pipe! It was going to cost so much to take it out and patch the holes in the walls, that the cables stayed there for years until the company relocated.
Quentin
Our first computer was an Apple IIc--which we still have, but have not used for many years. It is one that would have had much trouble with the year 2000; did Apple think that it would not last that long? Ricki began using a PC not long after we got the Apple, and she has gone through many since, usually giving me her castoff, but six and a half years ago she gave me a new one which I used ever since.
The first small computer I worked with was a "Digital," IIRC. It, too, loaded via cassette. We were going to use it to process weather balloon data, but I'm not sure it ever went on line for that.
We had a ball playing "tic-tac-toe" on it. It "learned," so any given series of moves was only good for about two tries before the computer learned them and wouldn't let you win using them. We found that by turning the moves 90 degrees, we could play the same series again.
Then when we shut the computer off, it "forgot" everything.
That was in 1973.
My college advisor for data processing had a daughter who worked at Apple in the early days. I got to see an early "Lisa" - my introduction to the cursor and mouse we all take for granted today.
As a result of my early exposure to computers, I'm still something of a "command line commando."
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
I just happened to think of a unit in our Lab Engineering area.....This goes back a couple decades....If my memory serves me correctly, it's brand name was "Wang"....Hope that's correct. I'm sure at least a couple decades as later this year, I will have been retired 18 years.
It's readout was on one line with red digital readout. That goes back into the 70's.
The first personal computer I ever saw was about 1978-9. My friend from work was a Electrical Engineer and he built his own on a small motherboard. It had a single line of display like a calculator, and he hooked it up to the cassette deck in his stereo system through the cassette deck's earphone plug. We played a game called "Hunt the Wumpus" one Friday evening.
I next saw small computers in the early eighties. An old, by then, Apple IIe and 286's at work. Load the OS on a floppy drive, take it out, and the insert Lotus 1-2-3. I never had a computer at home until 1995, a 486.
I'm typing this on a great little Acer laptop. Low price, but I think I may have exploited Asian child labour in order to get one so cheaply. Oh dear...
Good Morning. 32° now, sunny, and a high of 45°. One of the better 7 day forecasts I've seen for awhile now. We are far from the end of winter up here, but the cycle of storm/Chinook seems to be broken. Maybe the weather will settle down for a week or so.
Near as I can tell, no news must be good news on the RR front.
Hope everyone enjoys their Saturday.
tree68 Old computers - first home computer was a TI-99, for which we used cassette players to store data. On a later computer I spent a lot of time flying MSFS out of Meigs Field.
Old computers - first home computer was a TI-99, for which we used cassette players to store data.
On a later computer I spent a lot of time flying MSFS out of Meigs Field.
tree68 Meigs Field is where our "program" on the old computer / cassette had us take off, and somehow I worked my way up in the air and fly around the J. Hancock. I have been into Meigs Field in a real airplane....Our Co. plane dropped me off there way back in 1971 to go to the Federal Building downtown, to get a passport....Not possible to do the same here in Muncie when it was needed in a hurry. Meigs Field was not that compfortable of space to set down on either....I believe that has been closed now for some time....Anyone know for sure....? Old computers - first home computer was a TI-99, for which we used cassette players to store data. I was taking computer courses at the time in college and would sometimes translate between programming languages so I could work the bugs out of a procedure. On a later computer I spent a lot of time flying MSFS out of Meigs Field. Now I'd rather run trains on Trainz...
Meigs Field is where our "program" on the old computer / cassette had us take off, and somehow I worked my way up in the air and fly around the J. Hancock.
I have been into Meigs Field in a real airplane....Our Co. plane dropped me off there way back in 1971 to go to the Federal Building downtown, to get a passport....Not possible to do the same here in Muncie when it was needed in a hurry.
Meigs Field was not that compfortable of space to set down on either....I believe that has been closed now for some time....Anyone know for sure....?
Old computers - first home computer was a TI-99, for which we used cassette players to store data. I was taking computer courses at the time in college and would sometimes translate between programming languages so I could work the bugs out of a procedure.
Now I'd rather run trains on Trainz...
About an inch overnight, but a bit heavier, so the snowblower got a brief workout.
Sounds like heavy snow to the south of me. They just closed the Interstate due to several accidents, including one involving a state police car that was already investigating another accident. Good day to stay home!
I don't usually get on the Netherlands railcam during the day, although the one cam had a couple of pigeons on it yesterday when I took a look.
I probably should accomplish something productive today - heaven knows I've got enough potential projects!
Bright, but overcast this morning....I'd say though...we're going to have some sunshine today....and melting of this long overdue to leave, stuff.
31 plus degrees now and expected to be in the melting range soon...
An unusual dusting of snow during the night. I didn't see it but Jean said at 3am it was almost a white out....Appearance of it all this morning seems to be just a dusting though....Maybe even that is too much.
Some mentioning "old computers"....back a few posts. Believe our first computer was a Commador {Not sure if it was a 64 or 128}, with the cassette tape peripheral. And we had the "control stick", and I remember of flying an airplane right around the John Handcock building in Chicago....
Item: One or the other reminded me....one night coming into O'Hare Airport {ORD}, from the west, but for some reason we came all the way over to the Lake and made a sharp turn to go back towards the airport for final approach, and it was snowing and I remember looking out the window as we were in a pretty steep bank and I could look right over at the John Hancock building....But can't remember which occured first...The "computer flying"...or the real thing....
And now the weak sun, thru the thin clouds is blazing right in my east window her....Blaze on....and get this melting starting...!
Still about half afraid to chance to walk down the driveway and across the icy street to get to the mail box. One thing we can get plenty of here in central Indiana, is ice. I promise, before we enter another season of it....we'll have those "grabbers" to install on our shoe soles.
But we believe it's now starting to get better....
mother nature left us a dusting last night.weather guessers say more snow on the way then rain at the end of the week.going to get matt ready for his swimming lessons.This afternoon we'll see how the boys from columbus do in Madison.Cw I'll place an order for a pepperoni mushroom pizza for tonight please.
Good Saturday morning everyone. 31 degrees here in Louisville this morning. Think we're to get into the upper 30s, possibly into the low 40s today (can't remember what I heard on the weather report).
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go. Saturday brunch is on the serving station: bacon, sausage, eggs, grits, biscuits, toast, sausage gravy, fried country ham, red eye gravy, fruits (apples, bananas, oranges, kiwi, papaya, etc.), and there's also some pancakes, waffles, jams, jellies and preserves.
May everyone have a beautiful, safe day today, and I'll see you all later on when we're all back in here for our pizza fest. Have a good day and take care.
tree68 Deggesty: And you may recall that a real bug caused one of the early computers to have problems--back when relays were used in such. Reportedly, said bug was preserved...
Deggesty: And you may recall that a real bug caused one of the early computers to have problems--back when relays were used in such.
Reportedly, said bug was preserved...
Modelcar Johnny.....That's the way things turn around some times. I'm glad in the necessary end of it....that you have taken to that skill and I'm sure it is a real advantage to you both now.
Johnny.....That's the way things turn around some times. I'm glad in the necessary end of it....that you have taken to that skill and I'm sure it is a real advantage to you both now.
Joe - was out watching a Tonka Toy - front end loader and backhoe - he was burying tresspassers! Had a lot of dirt to cover them, too.
Tree - last nite about 5 am their time, the owl was back at the box #8. Didn't say much, but back inside inspecting. Now have to print retraction: After much searching and using a new search engine rather than the usual one - the nest cam is home to a Eurasian Kestrel, not a Hobby. There is a little difference, but depending on the photo, it is sometimes hard to tell.
Anyway, there has been a lot of foot stamping and calling, so figure maybe a male looking for a female to answer the phone! He drug what I thought was a small twig in there last nite. Turned out the twig was a naked tail of some non-descript take out order. Ugh again.
It was a beautiful day here and just keeps getting better. I am now wearing my vitamin D on my right side of my neck where the sun was coming in Millie's window. Pretty in Pink!
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