[Coco] CoCo Ethernet for $25-$30...

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 12 April 2013 00:24:01 Richard E. Crislip did opine:

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> > My coco is in the basement Allen.  I found an outfit that had 10 meter
> > long extension usb2 cable/hubs.  I did had some 3 meter boosted hubs,
> > but I think a nearby lightning strike wrote the ~30~ to one or both
> > of those, but these have been pretty bullet proof.  I have a 2 foot
> > dw cable that hits a usb-ser adapter, and that is plugged into a 7
> > port hub 2 feet away that also has the Brother B&W laser printer
> > plugged into it, and the near end of the 10 meter cable is plugged
> > into one of the hubs near my feet, so my USB tree has a marked
> > resemblance to a weeping willow here.  The cable was about $30, works
> > a treat.
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> I've been in that basement. It was scary 8-). Cost me $500 8-).

Now now Richard, be nice. :)  Just because I only have to move that folding 
chair about a foot to change from doing something on my coco, to reloading 
the ammo I'll burn at the range south of town the next time the weather is 
decent shouldn't make it scary.  I've been rolling my own, exclusively for 
the rifles since back in the early 60's.  The reloading press has turned 
Lee red, and the measure is now a Hornady Lock-n-load full auto dispenser.

I haven't shot much over the last 50 years, just enough to wear out 5 
barrels, 3 on the Ackley-06, and 2 on the 22-250, but I put a whole new 
action in that wood a year ago when the 2nd barrel started key holing.

All that FWIW, on 3 boxes of factory shells.  And the Ackley barrel is 
about done again, but from rust, carrying it around in the WV hunting 
season, which usually corresponds to the annual fall monsoon, with about a 
foot of rain during hunting season.

And I've carved two new stocks for a black powder 50 cal since you were 
here last.  The mill was converted to CNC when you were here, and now the 
lathe is too, but I put ball screws in the lathe.  If I don't fall over 
first, the mill is going to get a dose of HGH & some ball screws too

What that basement confirms is that it really ought to be illegal for 2 
aging packrats to marry.  :)

Speaking of packratitis, I found a set of docs about 1/4" thick on that 
PP&S 68040 accelerator card that was in that purchase while looking for a 
1099 that seems to have wandered off & gotten lost in this midden heap.

Shoot me an address by PM & I'll see if it will fit in a manila clasp 
envelope sometime in the next week.

Cheers, Gene
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