jps wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 21:38:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On May 4, 9:33 pm, HK wrote:
Sarah Palin honored by NRA with special Alaska-themed assault rifle

WASHINGTON - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was bashed for her pricey wardrobe,
but now she's getting a lethal accessory.

The National Rifle Association Foundation will present Sen. John
McCain's ill-fated running mate with a military-style assault weapon
next week.

The all-white "Alaskan Hunter" - fashionable until Labor Day - is the
civilian version of a modified M-4 rifle carried by U.S. troops overseas.

Alaska's feisty Republican governor, who is weighing a potential 2012
presidential bid, will receive the rifle made by Templar Consulting at a
May 14 NRA banquet.

It's engraved with Palin's name and adorned with a map of the state on
the collapsible stock - made legal after the expiration of the assault
weapons ban in 2004. The Big Dipper from the state flag is etched on the
magazine well behind a vented barrel guard.

The rifle is chambered in .50-caliber "Beowulf." It's the same caliber
used by heavy machine guns, which can take down big game, and in war
zones "can disable both motor vehicles and assailants with body armor,"
according to ammo manufacturer Alexander Arms' Web site.

Templar gun designer Bob Reynolds told the NRA's magazine that Palin had
stood up for Second Amendment gun rights and "I just wanted to do
something to give back."

- - -

.50 caliber?

Levi Johnston better practice his cross-country running.

Or maybe the Alaskan bimbo will be satisfied shooting wolves from
helicopters.
Herr Krause. I believe your jealous of the governor because she's more
of a man than you'll ever be.

Classic case of projection. Pretty weird that you consider Palin a
man. Suppressed latent feelings for your dad no doubt.

Something like that. Topbass is another of the right-wing sockpuppets
here who live in my bozo bin...I'm sure he plays nicely with loogy, DK,
florida jim, and GC boater, for examples, because if he doesn't GC
boater's lawyer sister won't service him after she services the others.

On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:22:23 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 05 May 2009 20:31:24 -0400, HK wrote:

Nobody fixes laser printers now. They are throw away things. This was
the old IBM 3800, about 18 feet long with the burster with a 3'
diameter PC drum and a 3.2KW fuser that moved 3 feet of paper a
second, printed, trimmed, bursted and stacked.
The lizard was unhappy when one was broke and frantic when it was 2.


18' long? Holy schitt!


This is a picture of one without the burster.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/hi...year_1976.html
That adds 5' to the end. There was also the roll feed that added a few
feet to the other end. It used a big roll of paper instead of the fan
fold box.
When they use box paper they used 3600 sheet boxes of paper instead of
the standard 2400 sheet box regular mainframe printers used.
The printer was solid as a rock, the burster sucked.

I remember those and earlier when they moved from greenbar.
Smelly.
IBM had a fancy for "3800" If I recall right 3800 was a one of the
most common disk packs. Or was it 3750.
Used to figure space allocations with the track/cylinder counts of the
different devices. IBM yellow card days.

--Vic

On Tue, 05 May 2009 09:42:12 -0400, HK wrote:

Richard Casady wrote:
On Mon, 04 May 2009 22:33:53 -0400, HK wrote:

Or maybe the Alaskan bimbo will be satisfied shooting wolves from
helicopters.

I wish she would bring her helo to Des Moines and do a search and
destroy on an obnoxious and dangerous pest found in over abundence.
Deer.

Casady


Stop infringing on deer habitat.

Basically, it's a failure to replace the missing lions and wolves with
guns. I can remember when, here in Iowa, and everywhere else, they had
a lottery to see who got a limited number of deer permits. Not
anymore. They allow limited bow hunting downtown. [Des Moines]

Casady

On Tue, 05 May 2009 12:26:01 -0700, jps wrote:

I replaced a cmos chip on my Raytheon scanner 5 years ago and I didn't
know a damned thing about it before cracking it open to diagnose. Was
able to search the net for clues, talked to a raytheon tech over the
phone and isolated the problem. Soldering iron, solder suck, solder
and a $2 cmos chip and the thing worked like new. Damned gratifying.

Replacing the board would've been $600.

My HP 45 calculator developed a bad display. I removed the 00 size
phillips screws, opened it up. and relaced the LEDs with a Radio Shack
part. Now they are made in Indonesia and glued together [HP48].

Casady

On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:58:52 -0400, HK wrote:

Absolutely. Fair is fair. I've been bitten by enough fish and hooked
myself often enough to appreciate the "other side" even more. A few
thousand more sport hunters shot every year will only improve the bree

Ever since I got my first tackle box at age ten or so, I have carried
needlenose pliers with good wire cutters. Those treble hooks on lures
are put on with screws, you can replace any you have to cut.
Never hooked myself, but I once loaned the pliers to someone who had.

Casady

On May 6, 7:47*am, Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 05 May 2009 12:26:01 -0700, jps wrote:
I replaced a cmos chip on my Raytheon scanner 5 years ago and I didn't
know a damned thing about it before cracking it open to diagnose. *Was
able to search the net for clues, talked to a raytheon tech over the
phone and isolated the problem. *Soldering iron, solder suck, solder
and a $2 cmos chip and the thing worked like new. *Damned gratifying.

Replacing the board would've been $600.

My HP 45 calculator developed a bad display. I removed the 00 size
phillips screws, opened it up. and relaced the LEDs with a Radio Shack
part. Now they are made in Indonesia and glued together [HP48].

Casady

My 48G is made in Singapore. But, it's like my right hand, I have to
have it! I like having four stacks visible for one thing. And it
graphs. I've had it about 14 years or so, and it pains me to have to
use a calculator that doesn't use Reverse Polish Notation.

On May 6, 12:48*am, jps wrote:
On Tue, 5 May 2009 21:38:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On May 4, 9:33*pm, HK wrote:
Sarah Palin honored by NRA with special Alaska-themed assault rifle

WASHINGTON - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was bashed for her pricey wardrobe,
but now she's getting a lethal accessory.

The National Rifle Association Foundation will present Sen. John
McCain's ill-fated running mate with a military-style assault weapon
next week.

The all-white "Alaskan Hunter" - fashionable until Labor Day - is the
civilian version of a modified M-4 rifle carried by U.S. troops overseas.

Alaska's feisty Republican governor, who is weighing a potential 2012
presidential bid, will receive the rifle made by Templar Consulting at a
May 14 NRA banquet.

It's engraved with Palin's name and adorned with a map of the state on
the collapsible stock - made legal after the expiration of the assault
weapons ban in 2004. The Big Dipper from the state flag is etched on the
magazine well behind a vented barrel guard.

The rifle is chambered in .50-caliber "Beowulf." It's the same caliber
used by heavy machine guns, which can take down big game, and in war
zones "can disable both motor vehicles and assailants with body armor,"
according to ammo manufacturer Alexander Arms' Web site.

Templar gun designer Bob Reynolds told the NRA's magazine that Palin had
stood up for Second Amendment gun rights and "I just wanted to do
something to give back."

- - -

.50 caliber?

Levi Johnston better practice his cross-country running.

Or maybe the Alaskan bimbo will be satisfied shooting wolves from
helicopters.

Herr Krause. I believe your jealous of the governor because she's more
of a man than you'll ever be.

Classic case of projection. *Pretty weird that you consider Palin a
man. *Suppressed latent feelings for your dad no doubt.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

WHOOOOSH.......

Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 05 May 2009 21:58:52 -0400, HK wrote:

Absolutely. Fair is fair. I've been bitten by enough fish and hooked
myself often enough to appreciate the "other side" even more. A few
thousand more sport hunters shot every year will only improve the bree

Ever since I got my first tackle box at age ten or so, I have carried
needlenose pliers with good wire cutters. Those treble hooks on lures
are put on with screws, you can replace any you have to cut.
Never hooked myself, but I once loaned the pliers to someone who had.

Casady


Wow. Needlenose pliers...never thought of that...

Wow. Replace the treble hooks...never thought of that...

Got any knots you want to share?

On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady

"Richard Casady" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:

I am a bit younger but the first time I ever did a repair was taking
apart a tube CB radio and bringing the tubes to radio shack where they
had a tester.. It was a big box about the size of a video game.. You
plugged in the tube and hit the button.. I think I was about 8-10 at
the time.

When I was a kid there was a tube tester at the drug store. Radio
Shack sold to radio amateurs mostly, and it was downtown. Everything
was downtown there were no malls.

Casady


I think I mentioned before that I remember as a young kid going with my Dad
to the original Radio Shack that was located somewhere near the "Common" in
Boston.

Eisboch