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| Cerebus:
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 30, 2022, 09:34:34 am ---Well that was a short lay down ;) --- End quote --- [Fx: Spike Milligan's "Eccles" voice] Well, stands to reason that it'd be a short lay down because he'd be shorter lying down. Hold on!? Perhaps he isn't shorter lying down - like Neddie Seagoon. [/fx] |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 30, 2022, 04:32:19 pm --- --- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2022, 04:27:18 pm ---I think he probably summoned those names from somewhere rather than chose them. --- End quote --- Smirk. He claims a lot are Roman Catholic, and I'm not going to comment on that since it would be "religion". I think JR-M would be good in one of the cheesy old Hammer Horror Films. Not sure whether he would be giving or receiving a stake through the heart. --- End quote --- Had a great discussion about ways to dispose of JRM in Nandos the other day and we worked out that with his corporeal state the only viable method would be creating a small singularity within his vicinity. |
| Robert763:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 30, 2022, 04:36:43 pm --- --- Quote from: mansaxel on June 30, 2022, 05:05:27 am --- --- Quote from: Cerebus on June 30, 2022, 12:45:32 am --- --- Quote from: mansaxel on June 29, 2022, 10:45:01 pm ---FTP killed the ZIP drive in its only successful industry, printing. I'm not crying. --- End quote --- Not before Syquest drives had already done for them. --- End quote --- The Syquest was first and then killed by Zip here -- their market share mainly was in the 44MB drives, and they are much earlier than the Zip drives; when the Zip came, it had a brief sejour, after which FTP took over. --- End quote --- Because the Zip drives came in "bigger" than the Syquests there was a brief flirtation with them here for that reason. We'd often find that a print section ran to two or more Syquests and when this happened there was always a risk of something going missing. Zip drives would solve that problem, but when the printers calls you and says "Can't read the disks", you're in London, the Printer is in the extreme West Country, and you'll lose your print slot* if they can't start the presses rolling at 8pm, it kind of puts a dampener on the day. After my publisher had a few brushes with that and paid the exorbitant costs of a bike from London to St Ives a few times, and actually lost a print slot once, an edict came down from on high "Thou shalt not use Zip drives on pain of death and shalt return to using Syquests". Whatever their faults (and they were many) Syquests were an order of magnitude more reliable than Zip drives. * Cost of losing a print slot - £30,000 from memory. --- End quote --- Bizzarly, I opend a Really Useful Box in the garage this morning looking for a 2.5mm jack plug and found a Syquest disk in there 130Mb IIRC. No idea why, I've never had a drive. Anybody need a disk? I've some 8" Dysan's too. At least I had a couple of machines that used those (Cromenco Z2 S100 CPM beast) |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Kosmic on June 30, 2022, 02:47:43 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on June 30, 2022, 02:17:52 pm --- --- Quote from: Kosmic on June 29, 2022, 11:46:29 pm --- --- Quote from: mnementh on June 29, 2022, 09:28:06 pm ---TinkerDwagon SQUEEEEE!!!! I hopped on fleaBay to see if my 54621D had shipped yet... and my dashboard thwapped me upside the head with this alert!!! w00t! mnem *toddles off to stalk the wily UPS driver* >:D --- End quote --- Nice, was a good deal :-+ Mine was apparently shipped today. But I don't see a tracking number so it's a little bit suspect. --- End quote --- Did you get valid tracking yet? I have no doubt you will, as you said, your paperwork all went through. :-+ Also, I forgot to say thanks last night; that was purely exhaustion, I promise. :-[ Thanks Kosmic for being all that TEA is supposed to be, and sharing a good deal when you find it. :clap: mnem Now I don't mind that OWON from ARROW I let slip through my claws nearly as much. ;) --- End quote --- No tracking #. Just marked as shipped. And they are still not answering emails nor ebay messages :-\ They have good deals but look like they are a pain to deal with. --- End quote --- Is it this bit of eBay feedback that has you uneasy? Yeah; that is a bit worrisome, and of course it weren't there when I ordered. I'm not sure if all the shitposting is reasonable though. This store is part of an international corporation, and they are required to follow very specific regulations regarding where any of their technology gets shipped; in large part because of Homeland Security regulations this guy is whingeing about. I do suspect he's full of shit about them asking him to lie, but rather simply does not meet the export END USE criteria that LeCroy/Teledyne has to apply, and is having a shit-fit about it. If he's telling the truth about them marking it shipped when it wasn't, I am concerned... I def intend to watch and see how it all plays out. Another possibility is it was shipped with the paperwork the buyer filled out and they turned it back at the border as paperwork was wrong or somesuch. :-// mnem :popcorn: |
| AVGresponding:
--- Quote from: Robert763 on June 30, 2022, 03:24:06 pm --- --- Quote from: bd139 on June 30, 2022, 10:20:46 am ---I have 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 isographs. You don't want the 0.1. They are stupid fragile and unreliable as hell. I actually did my A-level exams with a 0.35 rapidograph years ago. I know you're not supposed to write with them like that but it worked for me :D --- End quote --- At my first aircraft design job we still used ink on fiilm. You thought about what you were doing before drawing a line. It's a LOT harder to change than on CAD. Yongsters don't seem to think at all. I was talking to a "design engineer" a couple of weeks ago and despite have a Beng and masters in engineering they didn't know the difference between a machine screw and a bolt :scared: --- End quote --- :palm: I treat these kind of people with the same contempt as ones who can't tell the difference between a Pozidriv and a Phillips fastener. The sparky I'm working with at the moment thinks YZP steel hardware is brass... :scared: He'll get a shock if he tries to weigh any in! :-DD |
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