26 May
2004
26 May
'04
11:41 a.m.
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
At 12:45 PM 5/26/04 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Joe
Although not a computer, it was in Florida. When I was there,
one of my lady friends talked me into working on he old Mercedes.
We when out to start looking it over. On opening the driver door,
there was a large black widow spider. A few moments later we'd
gotten her into a soda cup from a fast food.
I next started to move some of the stuff around so I could get
in and do some more looking over. This is when the largest
scorpion I'd ever seen ran across my lap.
Still wanting to help out, we opened the hood to see what size
battery it would require. That is when the rattle snake let
us know that we were in his territory.
At this point I told her that a dead boy friend was not to
good and that I'd only consider working on the car if she
got it fumigated.
Dwight
Howzbout:
the ivy growing up through the recent Castro Valley PDP-11/40 rescue?
Naw. That's common here in Florida. I looked at the pictures and it
didn't look like they'd been sitting out more than a couple of months by
Florida standards. I ROUTINELY find birds nest, wasp nests, plants, animal
dens and other forms of wildlife in anything that's left outside around here.
26 May
26 May
5:30 p.m.
At 01:41 PM 5/26/04 -0700, you wrote:
Hi Joe
Although not a computer, it was in Florida. When I was there,
one of my lady friends talked me into working on he old Mercedes.
We when out to start looking it over. On opening the driver door,
there was a large black widow spider. A few moments later we'd
gotten her into a soda cup from a fast food.
I next started to move some of the stuff around so I could get
in and do some more looking over. This is when the largest
scorpion I'd ever seen ran across my lap.
Still wanting to help out, we opened the hood to see what size
battery it would require. That is when the rattle snake let
us know that we were in his territory.
At this point I told her that a dead boy friend was not to
good and that I'd only consider working on the car if she
got it fumigated.
Dwight
Your own personal nature preserve!
Yeap! That sounds like Florida! LOL! BTW you must have missed the
wasps' nests inside the fenders. Just about every car that I've left
sitting has developed nests inside the fenders just in front of the door
openings. The wasps get in through the gaps at the front of the doors and
try to fill those big hollows with their nests. All of places, I usually
find black widow spiders in the treads of tires that haven't been moved
recently. They seem to like the gaps in the treads and the black color.
Joe
Joe
>From: "Joe R."
<rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>
>At 12:45 PM 5/26/04 -0700, you wrote:
>>Howzbout:
>>the ivy growing up through the recent Castro Valley PDP-11/40 rescue?
>
> Naw. That's common here in Florida. I looked at the pictures and it
>didn't look like they'd been sitting out more than a couple of months by
>Florida standards. I ROUTINELY find birds nest, wasp nests, plants, animal
>dens and other forms of wildlife in anything that's left outside around
here.
5:54 p.m.
good thing that you didn't go under the car and meet the gators!
Although not a computer, it was in Florida. When I was
there,
one of my lady friends talked me into working on he old Mercedes.
We when out to start looking it over. On opening the driver door,
there was a large black widow spider. A few moments later we'd
gotten her into a soda cup from a fast food.
I next started to move some of the stuff around so I could get
in and do some more looking over. This is when the largest
scorpion I'd ever seen ran across my lap.
Still wanting to help out, we opened the hood to see what size
battery it would require. That is when the rattle snake let
us know that we were in his territory.
At this point I told her that a dead boy friend was not to
good and that I'd only consider working on the car if she
got it fumigated.
27 May
27 May
4:43 a.m.
At 07:54 PM 5/26/04 -0700, you wrote:
good thing that you didn't go under the car and
meet the gators!
LOL! I'd forgotten about that. When I was a kid a gator parked itself
under my neighbor's VW. The neighbor came out and found it and tried to
chase it off with a broom. The gator stood up on all four legs and picked
up the VW and headed for a nearby lake with the VW on it's back! Then the
neighbor had to run in front of the gator and try to chase it back into the
yard to keep from losing the VW! Needless to say, things got pretty
exciting for a while!
Joe
Although not a computer, it was in Florida. When
I was there,
one of my lady friends talked me into working on he old Mercedes.
We when out to start looking it over. On opening the driver door,
there was a large black widow spider. A few moments later we'd
gotten her into a soda cup from a fast food.
I next started to move some of the stuff around so I could get
in and do some more looking over. This is when the largest
scorpion I'd ever seen ran across my lap.
Still wanting to help out, we opened the hood to see what size
battery it would require. That is when the rattle snake let
us know that we were in his territory.
At this point I told her that a dead boy friend was not to
good and that I'd only consider working on the car if she
got it fumigated.
8:45 a.m.
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
LOL! I'd forgotten about that. When I was a kid
a gator parked itself
under my neighbor's VW. The neighbor came out and found it and tried to
chase it off with a broom. The gator stood up on all four legs and picked
up the VW and headed for a nearby lake with the VW on it's back! Then the
neighbor had to run in front of the gator and try to chase it back into the
yard to keep from losing the VW! Needless to say, things got pretty
exciting for a while!
That's the funniest thing I've herad all day (it's still early though).
Too bad there wasn't a video camera around.
--
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28 May
28 May
1:03 p.m.
New subject: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside a computer?
There's only one problem with Joe's story. There were *no* VWs when he was
a kid.
Glen
0/0
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
Festival
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
> LOL! I'd forgotten about that. When I was a kid a gator parked itself
> under my neighbor's VW. The neighbor came out and found it and tried to
> chase it off with a broom. The gator stood up on all four legs and
picked
> up the VW and headed for a nearby lake with the
VW on it's back! Then
the
> neighbor had to run in front of the gator and try
to chase it back into
the
yard to keep
from losing the VW! Needless to say, things got pretty
exciting for a while!
That's the funniest thing I've herad all day (it's still early though).
Too bad there wasn't a video camera around.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
1:10 p.m.
New subject: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside acomputer?
Boy, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black! My first VW was a
'58 chassis with a '63 engine and a Myer's Manx body. Now how many of you
remember THAT?
Joe
At 06:03 PM 5/28/04 -0400, you wrote:
There's only one problem with Joe's story.
There were *no* VWs when he was
a kid.
Glen
0/0
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
Festival
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
> LOL! I'd forgotten about that. When I was a kid a gator parked itself
> under my neighbor's VW. The neighbor came out and found it and tried to
> chase it off with a broom. The gator stood up on all four legs and
picked
> up the VW and headed for a nearby lake with
the VW on it's back! Then
the
> neighbor had to run in front of the gator
and try to chase it back into
the
yard to
keep from losing the VW! Needless to say, things got pretty
exciting for a while!
That's the funniest thing I've herad all day (it's still early though).
Too bad there wasn't a video camera around.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer 
2:36 p.m.
New subject: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside acomputer?
On Fri, 28 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
Boy, if that isn't the pot calling the kettle
black! My first VW was a
'58 chassis with a '63 engine and a Myer's Manx body. Now how many of you
remember THAT?
Joe
Well, it wasn't mine - belonged to a cohort at work - but the
first one that I ever drove was a well thrashed '47 bug replete
with 'crash box'. That was in about '55, I think. It was a real
gas!
- don
At 06:03 PM 5/28/04 -0400, you wrote:
There's only one problem with Joe's story.
There were *no* VWs when he was
a kid.
Glen
0/0
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
Festival
On Thu, 27 May 2004, Joe R. wrote:
> LOL! I'd forgotten about that. When I was a kid a gator parked itself
> under my neighbor's VW. The neighbor came out and found it and tried to
> chase it off with a broom. The gator stood up on all four legs and
picked
> up the VW and headed for a nearby lake with
the VW on it's back! Then
the
> neighbor had to run in front of the gator
and try to chase it back into
the
yard to
keep from losing the VW! Needless to say, things got pretty
exciting for a while!
That's the funniest thing I've herad all day (it's still early though).
Too bad there wasn't a video camera around.
--
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer 
1:20 p.m.
New subject: What's the weirdest thing that you've ever found inside a computer?
On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 22:03, Glen Goodwin wrote:
There's only one problem with Joe's story.
There were *no* VWs when he was
a kid.
Well they've been around since what, late 1930's? The Kombi was a bit
later, late 40's I think. Of course I have no idea when they made it to
your side of the pond...
cheers
Jules
29 May
29 May
10:08 a.m.
New subject: Hugely OT VW history. Was RE: What's the weirdest ...
Hello,
--- Jules is hereby accused of writing this about VW
beetles ---
Well they've been around since what, late 1930's? The Kombi was a bit
later, late 40's I think. Of course I have no idea when they made it to
your side of the pond...
Asking uncle Google, I got the following useful links for VW history:
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/company/history
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen
As the story goes, the first Beetles were made right before WW-II in
1936. At that time they weren't yet named VolksWagen but were named
KdF-wagen (Kraft durch Freude - Strength through joy). After the war,
the factory was comissioned by the British blah, blah, blah...
go follow the link to read the whole story.
The first two Beetles shipped to USA went over in 1948. Should have
been fairly uncommon until 58 I guess, but I wasn't born, and not in
the States anyway.
Regards,
/UFO
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