17 May
2003
17 May
'03
2:30 p.m.
"R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)rddavis.org> observed,
Incorrect response to such a wife: "Yes
dear." [wimpily spoken]
Correct response to such a wife: "You're
right, we're not taking it
with us, I'm taking it with me. Either you're coming with me, or you
aren't. Make up your mind." [spoken very matter of factly and calmly,
then just let any arguments, shouting, screeching, etc. go in one ear
and out the other]
My first wife called this bluff and left, leaving me with the son and all
the bills. She filed property settlement papers that placed the value of
my collection at over $10,000, including my Kaypro 10 at $2,500, a PS2 at
$1,500 and a 9 pin Epson at $160. The current wife is an electrician
with a case of "Pack rat syndrome" equal to mine. The only classic
related disagreements we have are over whose turn it is to use the
ancient ones and how nice it would be to get 1/2 of the spare room for
her stuff, I tell her that she can have the bottom 1/2.
Rich
17 May
17 May
3:32 p.m.
On Sat, 17 May 2003 loedman1(a)juno.com wrote:
My first wife called this bluff and left, leaving me
with the son and all
the bills. She filed property settlement papers that placed the value of
my collection at over $10,000, including my Kaypro 10 at $2,500, a PS2 at
$1,500 and a 9 pin Epson at $160. The current wife is an electrician
Don't you know you're only supposed to brag about what your collection is
worth to other geeks?
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4:12 p.m.
My first wife always bitched about my "junk" too. She tried the same
thing when we split, but she had no clue about what I really had at the
time. She kept two old 486's, my DVI box for the Tandy 1000 and all of
my TI99 stuff and thought she had the "crown jewels".
My current wife has her own thing going on. She sell's party packs on
ebay so we have 12 pallets of kids party supplies in the fourth
bedroom. She can't bitch about my collection. at least it's all
either in the garage or in one room.
loedman1(a)juno.com wrote:
My first wife called this bluff and left, leaving me with the son and all
the bills. She filed property settlement papers that placed the value of
my collection at over $10,000, including my Kaypro 10 at $2,500, a PS2 at
$1,500 and a 9 pin Epson at $160. The current wife is an electrician
with a case of "Pack rat syndrome" equal to mine. The only classic
related disagreements we have are over whose turn it is to use the
ancient ones and how nice it would be to get 1/2 of the spare room for
her stuff, I tell her that she can have the bottom 1/2.
Rich
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18 May
18 May
1:28 a.m.
I was going over some old cables, and found a strange card in them.
It is marked C.A.V.I. interface and has a sticker that reads Cavri Systems.
There is a 1980 date etched on the board, and under the sticker it looks
like it says BCD Associates. There are seven chips on board, 2
DM7416N's a DM74LS14N, 2 Magnecraft W107DIP-5's, a Magnecraft W118DIP-5,
and a rockwell 6520-11. There are 6 outputs: Monitor V, Monitor A, Audio
Ch1 and 2, Player V and Computer V, and a nasty HRS rectangular locking plug.
I suspect it might be for an Apple II, but everything else was Wang or
System36, so it could be anything. Does anyone recognise this?
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
10:11 a.m.
I was going over some old cables, and found a strange
card in them.
It is marked C.A.V.I. interface and has a sticker that reads Cavri Systems.
Maybe 'Constant Angular Velocity Interactive'? This sounds like a video
disk player interface
There is a 1980 date etched on the board, and under
the sticker it looks
like it says BCD Associates. There are seven chips on board, 2
DM7416N's a DM74LS14N, 2 Magnecraft W107DIP-5's, a Magnecraft W118DIP-5,
and a rockwell 6520-11. There are 6 outputs: Monitor V, Monitor A, Audio
Ch1 and 2, Player V and Computer V, and a nasty HRS rectangular locking plug.
Monitor video, monitor audio, Audio inputs from the videodisk player (2
channels), player video and computer video. I would guess the rectangular
connector is for the remote control signals to the player (to select
individual frames, etc).
-tony
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