I want to start a new thread about nothing, and let it run...

...and Texas needs to recruit a kicker for next season.
He only missed two game winning FGs and probably making less than $300,000/year in NIL money 💰. Shouldn't he get a trophy or two just for trying? You sound like a TMC owner expecting perfected results. It is not about how well your RV or games your team wins, but how many plaques on the walls of your Dealership and how many awards they give these players :facepalm:
 
My my, what a big floppy disk he has...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/374403159149

The 8" floppy only hold 256kb :nonono:

I wonder if the Judge has any or used in real life?
I don't know about the judge, but I bought a single side, single density (SSD) 5 &1/4" floppy drive - in 1982 to replace the tape cassette storage on my Atari 800 (64K +3 sprites).



My office (1984) had a Dell Word Processor System - Dell computer, 15" green CRT, dot matrix printer using folded pin feed paper, and dual disk, dual side (DDD), 8" floppy storage (1mb). The system ran Word Perfect which is a WUSIWYG editor. Most of the word processors at that time used a line editor program.
 
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I don't know about the judge, but I bought a single side, single density (SSD) 5 &1/4" floppy drive - in 1982 to replace the tape cassette storage on my Atari 800 (64K +3 sprites).



My office (1984) had a Dell Word Processor System - Dell computer, 15" green CRT, dot matrix printer using folded pin feed paper, and dual disk, dual side (DDD), 8" floppy storage (1mb). The system ran Word Perfect which is a WUSIWYG editor. Most of the word processors at that time used a line editor program.

I'll see your Wordperfect and raise you a Lanier Word Processor with 8" floppies and Wordstar for DOS on an IBM PC clone from Wang.
 
I'll raise you both a telex machine we used to run credit reports.

At 6pm on Sunday we'd announce;
'Any customers on the lot who know the Bureau goes down at 6pm, please come to the show room.'
Then we'd make them go home and come back when we could see their credit before rolling them. If someone knew when the bureaus went down, they were likely fleas.

No floppies and you had to do character inserts between each input;
Roach./.Ima(return) xxx-xx.xxxxss/. (Return)adresss./.
About 90+ characters.
I don't remember a backspace key.
If you typed wrongly it took 10minutes to know you had to reinput.
It didn't use a ribbon. It used what looked like part of a brass pipe cleaner all bent up.
And
Of course we had a rotating drum type fax machine that looked like a mimeograph. Desk-fax exposed drum facsimile machine.

My first personal printer was a Star flat bed 8pin dot matrix printer.
What a joy. The print head was on a gantry that ran over a flat bed...much like a 3d printer(but only side to side, with the paper advancing)
A bit of modding and I could run a 2x4 8feet long through it if I wanted to.
It was a brilliant design. It ran pinned paper or birthday cards or clear contac paper...it didn't care what.
That printer and Pic n Save birthday cards launched our lives.
 
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I'll raise you both a telex machine we used to run credit reports.

At 6pm on Sunday we'd announce;
'Any customers on the lot who know the Bureau goes down at 6pm, please come to the show room.'
Then we'd make them go home and come back when we could see their credit before rolling them. If someone knew when the bureaus went down, they were likely fleas.

No floppies and you had to do character inserts between each input;
Roach./.Ima(return) xxx-xx.xxxxss/. (Return)adresss./.
About 90+ characters.
I don't remember a backspace key.
If you typed wrongly it took 10minutes to know you had to reinput.
It didn't use a ribbon. It used what looked like part of a brass pipe cleaner all bent up.
And
Of course we had a rotating drum type fax machine that looked like a mimeograph. Desk-fax exposed drum facsimile machine.

My first personal printer was a Star flat bed 8pin dot matrix printer.
What a joy. The print head was on a gantry that ran over a flat bed...much like a 3d printer(but only side to side, with the paper advancing)
A bit of modding and I could run a 2x4 8feet long through it if I wanted to.
It was a brilliant design. It ran pinned paper or birthday cards or clear contac paper...it didn't care what.
That printer and Pic n Save birthday cards launched our lives.

I think I too still have my Star dot matrix printer! Also my first printer!! The place I bought it sold crazy expensive HP Laserjets... I couldn't afford one then. Funny thing is the printer I use now is an HP Laserjet, a literal workhorse at least 20 years old. I just keep sticking cheap replacement cartridges in it.
 
I gave away my hp4.
I bet it had a million sheets ran through it.

We have a bulk ink Epson now.
Just over 1000 pages through it and it still has half of its original ink in it.

As long as we're discussing oddities;

I picked up an old overhead projector like teachers used.
It's perfect now.
New bulb
De-dusted and cleaned to pristine
New ink jet printable clear sheets

I'll use it to make my gate plans/patterns full size for layout.
Like this gate but with elk.
 

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8" Floppy disk? You got me there. Just when I thought I was able to hang with the elders you remind me that there were people around doing things before I was born :whistling:

Anyway, is it possible that the 8" floppies never made it to Texas because they may have been known to cause cancer to the State of California?

Regardless, if you give me 8" floppies for coasters, it would mean I would need glasses to drink 50% more liquor (1125ml to be exact). That may be too much, after the 1st 750ml, I consider myself a light drinker :rolleyes:

My first software development system used 8" floppies and a dot matrix printer that spit out the wide green bar paper. I did all my embedded stuff back then in assembly language.
 
The simpleness is pervasive and not specifically related to rv ownership.
This is because she can't figure out how to work a step ladder.
(It's an 8ft ceiling)

I can't go because I have to go to the airport 50miles away to pick up a different neighbor who can't figure out a week of parking at an airport.
 

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The simpleness is pervasive and not specifically related to rv ownership.
This is because she can't figure out how to work a step ladder.
(It's an 8ft ceiling)

I can't go because I have to go to the airport 50miles away to pick up a different neighbor who can't figure out a week of parking at an airport.

Today's society reinforces helplessness. It wasn't always this way... at least in my family. My mother could navigate our VERY hilly, unplowed snow covered neighborhood streets with a heavy rear-wheel drive car like a pro. She understood the dynamics of "getting a run for it and slinging the rear end around a corner on a hill". She would laugh at this individual.
 
The simpleness is pervasive and not specifically related to rv ownership.
This is because she can't figure out how to work a step ladder.
(It's an 8ft ceiling)

I can't go because I have to go to the airport 50miles away to pick up a different neighbor who can't figure out a week of parking at an airport.

This is why I recommend scheduling fire alarms and 911 calls in advance. :whistling:
 
20 miles out but headed back from the airport, i got a call.
The battery in a neighbors polaris ranger is dead. He replaced it with a new one yesterday.
He's out in the woods a bit. Can you come jump start me?
I did the jump After I dropped off other airport neighbor and changed my shoes.

I explained (while sitting in MY Polaris ranger)the benefit of a 3amp solar panel and a $40 jump box ...of which i have on/in all of my vehicles.

All of these people are worth the expenditure.
It's just time and expense for me which I have both of beyond my need.
I'm glad to do it just so I can realize how little I need and how comparatively capable I am.

So here I sit, noon, looking for something to do that won't require me to build a jig to fix the tool i need to open the box that has batteries needing replaced...a battery size no one has seen in years and now requires rewiring before I make a new English thread bolt to replace the one that stripped out while opening the box(not a real job today but totally representative.)

I think I'll trim some trees. Lotsa ryobi batteries and four(one is none and yard sale saws are $5) Sawzalls.
It'll be hard for me to need anything for that job...except for the phone to not ring.
Of course my dr trailer has a flat that needs aired up first.

It ain't me babe.
No no no It ain't me babe.
It ain't me who can't figure it out...
Babe.
 
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My alexa/echo/amazon air quality monitor.
Voc goes up and down throughout the day.
Except for an ozone machine nothing is in the behemoth to cause such to happen...but it does.
 

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Gosh Duck... after reading your "rescue the neighbors" story, it dawned on me why I often do things I could probably hire out... and you put it into words for me.

It's just time and expense for me which I have both of beyond my need.
I'm glad to do it just so I can realize how little I need and how comparatively capable I am.

Since I retired 7 years ago, I've replaced work life with "hobby life"... the motorhome being the largest one. I'm constantly doing stupid little projects like sharpening lawnmower blades... which I could get done cheap at a shop 3 miles away.

I have a brother-in-law in his late 70s who sits on his ass most hours of the day. I call that "waiting on your turn to die"... not me Jack... get busy living, or get busy dying.
 
20 miles out but headed back from the airport, i got a call.
The battery in a neighbors polaris ranger is dead. He replaced it with a new one yesterday.
He's out in the woods a bit. Can you come jump start me?
I did the jump After I dropped off other airport neighbor and changed my shoes.

I explained (while sitting in MY Polaris ranger)the benefit of a 3amp solar panel and a $40 jump box ...of which i have on/in all of my vehicles.

All of these people are worth the expenditure.
It's just time and expense for me which I have both of beyond my need.
I'm glad to do it just so I can realize how little I need and how comparatively capable I am.

So here I sit, noon, looking for something to do that won't require me to build a jig to fix the tool i need to open the box that has batteries needing replaced...a battery size no one has seen in years and now requires rewiring before I make a new English thread bolt to replace the one that stripped out while opening the box(not a real job today but totally representative.)

I think I'll trim some trees. Lotsa ryobi batteries and four(one is none and yard sale saws are $5) Sawzalls.
It'll be hard for me to need anything for that job...except for the phone to not ring.
Of course my dr trailer has a flat that needs aired up first.

It ain't me babe.
No no no It ain't me babe.
It ain't me who can't figure it out...
Babe.

As a retired individual your main task is to find things that give you a purpose. Looks like you have achieved that task.
 
Gosh Duck... after reading your "rescue the neighbors" story, it dawned on me why I often do things I could probably hire out... and you put it into words for me.



Since I retired 7 years ago, I've replaced work life with "hobby life"... the motorhome being the largest one. I'm constantly doing stupid little projects like sharpening lawnmower blades... which I could get done cheap at a shop 3 miles away.

I have a brother-in-law in his late 70s who sits on his ass most hours of the day. I call that "waiting on your turn to die"... not me Jack... get busy living, or get busy dying.

I am near 79 and still consult. It keeps me in touch with old friends and gives me purpose. Just yesterday I got called to put a piece of machinery back online that myself and two other guys designed 40 years ago. Yes, they still use it. I don't think I could sit on the front porch in a rocking chair.
 
My new watertanks(10,000gallon cistern...think of it as a well I have to refill)that wouldn't prime my pump have been whooped.
Today after about a dozen previous tries over a dozen days(I hadn't tried since before Christmas) the damn thing primed on its own. I poured in about a cup of water because I heard it gurgle then I closed the prime hole and got ready to turn on the 60psi hose.
Of course I made fixtures and had an auxiliary hose connected below the check valve and was just about to backdump 60psi to it through my secondary pump and pressure tank(of the 'one is none' fame).
I opened the line to attach the hose and somehow it started trickling water FOUR FEET UPHILL.
I closed the line, started the pump, and it primed. I turned two ball valves simultaneously...and I'm back on the main system and main pump. The gurgle was coming toward me not away from me.

How in the world did it pump water four feet high by itself?
Temp in the past few days have been in the 60's and I haven't vented the tanks yet.
5 or 6 psi or more from air expansion. I didn't expect that at all. I had thought about pressurizing the tank but I never thought it would do it on its own.

Sometimes I get lucky.
 
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