20 Jul
2007
20 Jul
'07
12:09 a.m.
At 07:20 AM 7/19/2007, you wrote:
I watched some show highlighting junk vehicles from
cuba/venezuela/etc. The narrator seemed amazed that they were on the road.
Most of them looked better than half of my cars and wouldn't turn a single
head in the valley (Alaska). ; )
As far as electronics go...my parents own a 4 plex. There is a crawl space
under some stairs that a lady used. She moved out and didn't want any of
the stuff. The crawl space filled up with water and froze. I literally
thawed an Apple IIe, disk drive, and monitor out of a block of ice. Once
dry it worked fine. It is still operating today.
A while back I hated newer cars because of all the controls and
computers. But after buying a service manual it isn't that bad. If you
want to know and fix everything, take a look at http://www.megasquirt.info/
Grant
Subject: Re: 1966 Mag: Build NE-2 Neon Bulb Computer - scan available
From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:54:18 +0100 (BST)
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> <rant>
> I'll make this vintage computer-oriented. How many people still own
> a working dishwasher/clothes washer with an integral computer that
> was manufactured over 10 years ago? When I first saw a dishwasher
Maytag washer dryer pair, still in use and working fine.
> with computerized control, my reaction was
"What a damned fool thing
> to do--put a computer in the absolutely worst (hot water, caustics,
> steam) environment possible. Now you can't buy them any other way.
Automotive is considerably worse. Hot, humid, large temperature changes,
power system that runs from 6V worst case to 18V with transients higher
and it must work for 5years to be considered passably reliable.