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

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 13 April 2013 21:26:51 Kip Koon did opine:

> Gene,
> I would love to see your basement sometime!  :)  I definitely relate to
> packratitus!  My workbench area started out 10' x 10' and now it is 10'
> x 25' and still growing and because of all the old PC parts everywhere,
> I can't even walk through it.  I do have a lot of fun though!  :)  I'm
> told I can't grow anymore.  Something must go to the dump.  "Why?", I
> say, "because I might need it later!"  :)
> Kip

TBT, there is quite a bit that wouldn't qualify, its just sort of there, 
unfinished projects from both of us, and I don't publish pix since that 
might get the place condemned.  That I'd fight because its all ours, paid 
for almost 15 years now.  As long as I keep the taxes up to date, its all 
ours.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]
> On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 12:54 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCo Ethernet for $25-$30...
> 
> On Friday 12 April 2013 00:24:01 Richard E. Crislip did opine:
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > 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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> 

Cheers, Gene
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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          law-abiding citizens.