A simple search will find it.Dwight

On 6/19/2013 10:10 PM, dwight elvey wrote: I did a search previously, but only found a $7.49/5 offer. Thought maybe I missed an even better one. Jim

On 6/19/2013 11:18 PM, dwight elvey wrote: His is a steal. Can't even source them at that price. Buy his stock up. :-) Within reason, I can source quite a few vintage connectors, like those. Just let me know what folks would like to see in the store and I'll see if I can find it. I buy them in 1000 piece lots, so something that will go out the door over 36 months would be ideal :-) Jim

On Jun 19, 2013, at 11:09 PM, "mc68010" <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote: They are SK's, storekeepers. At first glance I thought it was a shore installation, I have a hard time conceiving of that much room on board a ship. And yes, it very much would be "game over."

At 6:10 AM -0700 6/20/13, dwight elvey wrote: While the main page says it's the supply department, it looks a bit more like an administrative office to me as well. In part due to the lack of any kind of terminal to connect to the Minicomputer. Here I was thinking along the lines of how it's really no larger than the office the SK's had on a FFG-7 class ship, and as such, quite small. :-) That's the ships insignia, BB-61. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ | | My Photography Website | | http://www.zanesphotography.com |

At 5:10 PM -0400 6/20/13, BE Arnold wrote: Could be either. I'm not sure how much a BB rocked. On a FFG-7 class, it paid to have stuff secure, but CVN-73 barely rocked (didn't even have straps on the racks). Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ | | My Photography Website | | http://www.zanesphotography.com |

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:08:54AM -0400, BE Arnold wrote: I've seen rooms like this while I was visiting the USS Missouri a good month ago. Including similiarly looking (and some slightly newer) hardware on desks in the IIRC supply department area. Also two big telltales that this is aboard a (war) ship: the slanted wall to the left and all the pipework snaking along the ceiling. Third one: the insignia on the wall to the right seems to say 'BB 61' - the would be the Iowa. Yeah, if you have to throw the supply clerks (alongside the cooks and bakers) into combat, things are dire indeed. Kind regards, Alex. -- "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison

At 11:35 AM -0700 6/30/13, Fred Cisin wrote: :-) Strange, I was thinking of that as well. :-) And the statement isn't necessarily true, as both rates could be part of the ships self-defense force. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ | | My Photography Website | | http://www.zanesphotography.com |

On Jun 30, 2013, at 4:01 PM, "TeoZ" <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote: Very true, I sincerely doubt there ever will be another successful boarding of a modern ship-of-the-line. (First world navies vs. first world navies) Well, yes and no. Steven Segal's non-sensical flick would be the resounding Yes. Fiction. Seals have a "regular job", radioman, quartermaster, or... cook, in addition to being a Seal. While very, very unlikely, it is possible a seal could transfer out of the seal group and back to regular duty. And therefore be a cook on a ship that gets taken over by aliens from the planet Hollywood. I dunno, I'd be worried if whoever made it through the ship's Marine contingent and we were left with a gaggle of SKs and YMs. Then again, knowing some of the marines I've known...

On 6/30/2013 8:13 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote: Actually, I think developed a system which was designed to prevent surreptitious boarding of ships, which was on cruisers and destroyers. I don't know about the battleships, as it was at the time that they were going away. The BB's had larger crews due to the inefficiency of the design and the needs of the modern navy. For just a gun platform they are obviously unequal, but as a platform for modern weapons they weren't so good. However to keep personnel that had no business off the ship, and to account for man overboards, there was and may still be a system to detect that and sound an alarm. A friend looked into licensing it for use on large private yachts, such as Job's and Allen types, but was turned down due to military concerns. It was a typical screwup, in that they developed it for private vessels, but once it was on a "Military" ship, couldn't go to the private market. If you recall a multi-millionaire named McMillan that died falling off his yacht, my friend actually tried to sell it to him, and he would possibly have been saved, since he fell overboard and was not missed for hours by the crew of his yacht. He had a lot of such large private yachts with power systems he had sold (3 phase shore any voltage or phase sequence to onboard 3phase @ whatever the ship needed)., and could have sold a lot of the personnel systems. Jim

At 7:05 PM -0700 6/19/13, Mr Ian Primus wrote: As it's 1987, I suspect it might be a Xerox 860, I know we had one on the USS Carr FFG-52 at that time. It was used for word processing. For a terminal they would most likely have had either a Harris or a Honeywell, and the Harris would make that look positively fragile. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ | | My Photography Website | | http://www.zanesphotography.com |